Package: fai-server
Ryan, filing your isse as a bug to the BTS.
Seems like make-fai-nfsroot will delete a mirror mounted via NFS.
When reading again, what I don't reall understand here, why the nfs
mount takes place on the server, anyway, I'd think that the install
_client_ mounts the mirror via nfs, while on the server this mount is
never necessary (hmm, or, is it, for dirinstall?)
Henning
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: fai-setup running potentially disastrous command?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:21:12 -0400
From: Ryan Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-fai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey list,
I was in the middle of testing an FAI install today, and had to re-run
'fai-setup -v'. However, I noticed that it was taking a long, long time
to delete the old nfsroot, and noticed something extremely alarming.
The nfsroot is located at '/srv/fai/nfsroot', as defined in
make-fai-nfsroot.conf:
NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot
And, the mount point for the mirror is defined as /media/mirror in fai.conf:
MNTPOINT=/media/mirror
However, I noticed that this appears to be relative to
/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount | grep nfsroot
remotenfshost:/path/to/repo on
/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/media/mirror type nfs
(rw,remount,noatime,rsize=8192,addr=10.x.x.x)
When running 'fai-setup -v', it detected that there was an existing
nfsroot, and it went to delete that, but disturbingly, it did so with
the following command:
root 27858 0.7 0.1 2952 660 pts/0 S+ 18:48 0:04 rm -rf
/srv/fai/nfsroot/.??* /srv/fai/nfsroot/live
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that the mirror located
at /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/media/mirror is going to be
blown away if it was mounted rw, as seen above? I happened to catch
this, but I'm not sure all what was lost yet. This was using FAI
3.2.8. I really, really hope I'm mistaken here, and am glad to be told
that I am, but am now afraid to do any further testing until I can
figure out what happened here.
Thanks
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