Issue

• We've seen OSE3 documentation talks about recycling volumes is only supported in NFS and HostPath but Ceph backend shows recycle as a persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy.

• There is a bugzilla to fix documentation.

• But, what will be the procedure to manually recycle the volume? Should the admin user delete the pv, then delete the volume in the storage backend and recreate it?

• Why is recycling not implemented when using ceph backend? The recycling is just a special pod (ose-recycler) that uses the previously released volume and runs an rm -Rf /".

• If we set the reclaimpolicy to recycle for ceph pv, logs say:

messages:Jan  4 04:56:16 ose1master atomic-openshift-master: I0104 04:56:16.019862    9525 persistentvolume_recycler_controller.go:94] Reclaiming PersistentVolume[ceph-vol13]
messages:Jan  4 04:56:16 ose1master atomic-openshift-master: I0104 04:56:16.023230    9525 persistentvolume_recycler_controller.go:126] Recycling PersistentVolume[ceph-vol13]
messages:Jan  4 04:56:16 ose1master atomic-openshift-master: E0104 04:56:16.023259    9525 persistentvolume_recycler_controller.go:118] Could not recycle volume spec: Could not find recyclable volume plugin for spec: no volume plugin matched