7719: permit never-delte to be set to false; add warning that datamanager is not...

diff --git a/services/keepstore/keepstore.go b/services/keepstore/keepstore.go
index 2528f6d6a6c4dbf2f4b509e670c834aa10b9e618..7525441aaec995d4a524a7ff20f954ee06ae50c9 100644 (file)
--- a/services/keepstore/keepstore.go
+++ b/services/keepstore/keepstore.go
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ const BlockSize = 64 * 1024 * 1024
 // in order to permit writes.
 const MinFreeKilobytes = BlockSize / 1024
 
-// Until #6221 is resolved, never_delete must be true.
-// However, allow it to be false in testing with TestDataManagerToken
-const TestDataManagerToken = "4axaw8zxe0qm22wa6urpp5nskcne8z88cvbupv653y1njyi05h"
-
 // ProcMounts /proc/mounts
 var ProcMounts = "/proc/mounts"
 
@@ -159,8 +155,9 @@ func main() {
                &neverDelete,
                "never-delete",
                true,
-               "If set, nothing will be deleted. HTTP 405 will be returned "+
-                       "for valid DELETE requests.")
+               "If true, nothing will be deleted. "+
+                       "Warning: the relevant features in keepstore and data manager have not been extensively tested. "+
+                       "You should leave this option alone unless you can afford to lose data.")
        flag.StringVar(
                &blobSigningKeyFile,
                "permission-key-file",
@@ -257,8 +254,9 @@ func main() {
                }
        }
 
-       if neverDelete != true && dataManagerToken != TestDataManagerToken {
-               log.Fatal("never_delete must be true, see #6221")
+       if neverDelete != true {
+               log.Print("never-delete is not set. Warning: the relevant features in keepstore and data manager have not " +
+                       "been extensively tested. You should leave this option alone unless you can afford to lose data.")
        }
 
        if blobSigningKeyFile != "" {