In some cases, user may want to repair the cluster, ignoring the node
that is down. For example, run repair before run removenode operation to
remove a dead node.
Currently, repair will ignore the dead node and keep running repair
without the dead node but report the repair is partial and report the
repair is failed. It is hard to tell if the repair is failed only due to
the dead node is not present or some other errors.
In order to exclude the dead node, one can use the hosts option. But it
is hard to understand and use, because one needs to list all the "good"
hosts including the node itself. It will be much simpler, if one can
just specify the node to exclude explicitly.
In addition, we support ignore nodes option in other node operations
like removenode. This change makes the interface to ignore a node
explicitly more consistent.
Refs: #7806Closes#8233
61ac8d03b9