[Podman] Re: Follow-up: Rootless storage usage

Of course I did it after system reset in both cases. On 10.01.2023 23:28, Daniel Walsh wrote: > Please run this command AFTER running podman system reset > > On 1/10/23 13:32, Михаил Иванов wrote: >> I have run podman both as root and rootless with --log-level debug. Rootless reports the following >> (I show only beginning of the logs where, as I understand, the decision about vfs or overlay usage is made): >> island:container [master]> podman run --name tstsys --detach --init --log-level debug docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 >> INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug >> DEBU[0000] Called run.PersistentPreRunE(podman run --name tstsys --detach --init --log-level debug docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9) >> DEBU[0000] Merged system config "/usr/share/containers/containers.conf" >> DEBU[0000] Using conmon: "/usr/bin/conmon" >> DEBU[0000] Initializing boltdb state at /home/tstusr/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod/bolt_state.db >> DEBU[0000] Using graph driver vfs >> DEBU[0000] Using graph root /home/tstusr/.local/share/containers/storage >> DEBU[0000] Using run root /run/user/1007/containers >> DEBU[0000] Using static dir /home/tstusr/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod >> DEBU[0000] Using tmp dir /run/user/1007/libpod/tmp >> DEBU[0000] Using volume path /home/tstusr/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes >> DEBU[0000] Set libpod namespace to "" >> DEBU[0000] [graphdriver] trying provided driver "vfs" >> DEBU[0000] Initializing event backend journald >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime krun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime krun: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime crun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime crun: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runj initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runj: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime kata initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime kata: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runsc initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runsc: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Using OCI runtime "/usr/bin/runc" >> INFO[0000] Setting parallel job count to 25 >> DEBU[0000] Pulling image docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 (policy: missing) >> DEBU[0000] Looking up image "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9" in local containers storage >> DEBU[0000] Normalized platform linux/amd64 to {amd64 linux  [] } >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" ... >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" ... >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9" ... >> DEBU[0000] Loading registries configuration "/home/tstusr/.config/containers/registries.conf" >> DEBU[0000] Normalized platform linux/amd64 to {amd64 linux  [] } >> DEBU[0000] Attempting to pull candidate docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest for docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 >> DEBU[0000] parsed reference into"[vfs@/home/tstusr/.local/share/containers/storage+/run/user/1007/containers]docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" >> Trying to pull docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest... >> Same for root podman attempt: >> root@island:~# podman run --name tstsys --detach --init --log-level debug docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 >> INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug >> DEBU[0000] Called run.PersistentPreRunE(podman run --name tstsys --detach --init --log-level debug docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9) >> DEBU[0000] Merged system config "/usr/share/containers/containers.conf" >> DEBU[0000] Using conmon: "/usr/bin/conmon" >> DEBU[0000] Initializing boltdb state at /var/lib/containers/storage/libpod/bolt_state.db >> DEBU[0000] Using graph driver >> DEBU[0000] Using graph root /var/lib/containers/storage >> DEBU[0000] Using run root /run/containers/storage >> DEBU[0000] Using static dir /var/lib/containers/storage/libpod >> DEBU[0000] Using tmp dir /run/libpod >> DEBU[0000] Using volume path /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes >> DEBU[0000] Set libpod namespace to "" >> DEBU[0000] overlay: test mount with multiple lowers succeeded >> DEBU[0000] Cached value indicated that overlay is supported >> DEBU[0000] overlay: test mount indicated that metacopy is not being used >> DEBU[0000] backingFs=extfs, projectQuotaSupported=false, useNativeDiff=true, usingMetacopy=false >> DEBU[0000] Initializing event backend journald >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime krun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime krun: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime crun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime crun: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runj initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runj: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime kata initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime kata: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runsc initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runsc: invalid argument >> DEBU[0000] Using OCI runtime "/usr/bin/runc" >> DEBU[0000] Successfully loaded network podman: &{podman 2f259bab93aaaaa2542ba43ef33eb990d0999ee1b9924b557b7be53c0b7a1bb9 bridge cni-podman0 2022-05-13 11:05:41.68704218 >> 4 +0300 MSK [{{{10.88.0.0 ffff0000}} 10.88.0.1 <nil>}] false false false map[] map[] map[driver:host-local]} >> DEBU[0000] Successfully loaded 1 networks >> DEBU[0000] Podman detected system restart - performing state refresh >> INFO[0000] Setting parallel job count to 25 >> DEBU[0000] Pulling image docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 (policy: missing) >> DEBU[0000] Looking up image "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9" in local containers storage >> DEBU[0000] Normalized platform linux/amd64 to {amd64 linux  [] } >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" ... >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" ... >> DEBU[0000] Trying "docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9" ... >> DEBU[0000] Loading registries configuration "/root/.config/containers/registries.conf" >> DEBU[0000] Normalized platform linux/amd64 to {amd64 linux  [] } >> DEBU[0000] Attempting to pull candidate docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest for docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9 >> DEBU[0000] parsed reference into"[overlay@/var/lib/containers/storage+/run/containers/storage]docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest" >> Trying to pull docker.example.com/test/tstsys-devel-rl9:latest... >> Best regards, >> On 10.01.2023 15:40, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >>> Daniel Walsh&lt;dwalsh(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: >>> >>>> On 1/9/23 14:29, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>>> >>>> I repeated everything again: podman system reset, then deleted everything in >>>> ~/.local/share/containers to be on the safe side and ran buildah to create an image. >>>> No overlay directories appeared under ~/.local/share/containers, only vfs* instead. >>>> >>>> When I run same buildah command as root, overlay* directories do appear under >>>> /var/lib/containers and no vfs ones. >>>> >>>> My debian is the latest one (sid) and it has the following fuse-related packages: >>>> >>>> ii fuse-overlayfs 1.9-1 amd64 implementation of overlay+shiftfs in FUSE for rootless containers >>>> ii fuse3 3.12.0-1 amd64 Filesystem in Userspace (3.x version) >>>> ii libfuse2:amd64 2.9.9-6 amd64 Filesystem in Userspace (library) >>>> ii libfuse3-3:amd64 3.12.0-1 amd64 Filesystem in Userspace (library) (3.x version) >>>> >>>> podman is 4.3.1 >>>> >>>> For both root and rootless configs podman system info reports runc runtime >>>> (runc_1.1.4+ds1-1+b1_amd64 package). >>>> >>>> Rgrds, >>>> >>>> Giuseppe any ideas? >>> not sure why overlay or fuse-overlayfs are not picked. It would be >>> helpful to open an upstream issue and attach the output of `podman >>> --log-level debug ...` in addition to all the other information that is >>> requested. >>> >>> >>>> On 03.01.2023 18:25, Daniel Walsh wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/30/22 08:35, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>>> >>>> > You could do a podman system reset and then remove all content >>>>> from the storage with >>>>> rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers >>>>> To make sure there is nothing hidden there, >>>> But that's almost exactly what I did: >>>>> I just purged the whole storage using podman system reset. >>>>> I verified that ~/.local/share/containers became empty >>>>> (only bolt database was still remaining using about 200Mb space) >>>> I'm using whatever storage was provided by default podman install >>>> (debian sid/bookworm) podman is 4.3.1 How can I reconfigure it to >>>> different type? I assumed this has to be done in storage.conf but >>>> this file is not present anywhere at all. >>>> >>>> I have no idea why debian would be choosing VFS, unless this is an older version of debian and did not support rootless overaly. You could >>>> try installling fuse-overlayfs and doing another reset, then Podman info should show you using overlay with fuse-overlayfs. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> On 29.12.2022 15:04, Daniel Walsh wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/27/22 13:19, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>>> >>>> Hallo again, >>>> I just purged the whole storage using podman system reset. >>>> I verified that ~/.local/share/containers became empty >>>> (only bolt database was still remaining using about 200Mb space) >>>> I have run 2 containers from docker.io: ibmcom/db2 and ibmcom/db2console. >>>> podman system df reports space usage by images 4Gb and by containers 6Mb. >>>> podman images command shows consistent values (two images, 2.83Gb + 1.21Gb) >>>> system df command shows that 32Gb is used on ~/.local/share/containers filesystem >>>> du shows that all this space is located under ~/.local/share/containers/storage/vfs/dir >>>> This directory contains 32 subdirs, 11 subdirs of 1.1Gb each, 6 subdirs of 2.6Gb each, >>>> rest subdirs take anywhere from 94Mb to 646Mb >>>> When I try to diff -rw for directories of same size, I see only reports for missing >>>> symlink files, but never real file differences. >>>> No real activity was performed with podman apart from running these two containers. >>>> I am running podman 4.3.1 on debian bookworm (kernel 6.0.8) >>>> >>>> What is wrong? >>>> >>>> I guess the first question I would have for you is why are you using VFS storage? And not overlay or fuse-overlay? >>>> >>>> Could there be other containers or storage that is un-accounted for? Did you do any podman builds? Or Buildah? >>>> >>>> ``` >>>> $ podman ps --all >>>> CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES >>>> 2e7070eacb0f docker.io/library/alpine:latest touch /dan/walsh 6 days ago Exited (0) 6 days ago nervous_noether >>>> $ podman ps --all --external >>>> CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES >>>> 2e7070eacb0f docker.io/library/alpine:latest touch /dan/walsh 6 days ago Exited (0) 6 days ago nervous_noether >>>> 9478fed6d8db docker.io/library/alpine:latest buildah 14 seconds ago Storage alpine-working-container >>>> ``` >>>> >>>> You could do a podman system reset and then remove all content from the storage with >>>> >>>> rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers >>>> >>>> To make sure there is nothing hidden there, >>>> >>>> Other then that I am not sure what could be showing the difference in storage. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> -- >>>> On 23.12.2022 19:43, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>>> >>>> Hallo, >>>> I notice some disk space discrepancy when running rootless podman containers. >>>> I use dedicated fs for podman storage mountrd to ~/.local/share/containers. >>>> df and du show consistent used disk space: >>>> island:named [master]> df -h ~/.local/share/containers >>>> /dev/mapper/sys-containers 117G 84G 32G 73% ~/.local/share/containers >>>> >>>> island:named [master]> sudo du -sh ~/.local/share/containers/storage/{vfs,volumes} >>>> 74G /home/ivans/.local/share/containers/storage/vfs >>>> 11G /home/ivans/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes >>>> island:named [master]> >>>> But space usage shown by podman system df is about 44% less than reported above: >>>> >>>> island:named [master]> podman system df >>>> TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE >>>> Images 32 5 39.49GB 25.96GB (66%) >>>> Containers 7 7 1.85GB 0B (0%) >>>> Local Volumes 2 2 10.83GB 0B (0%) >>>> >>>> Volume space is practically same, it's vfs space (where as I understand images >>>> and containers are located) that differs. >>>> I also run buildah as same user, but buildah ls shows nothing. >>>> I have ran podman system prune, but it reclaimed 0 bytes. >>>> So is this extra space usage expected? Or is it sthing wrong with my storage? >>>> Thanks and regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io > To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io