bug#29674: Ceph creates Btrfs subvolumes on Btrfs during tests.

[Rutger Helling]

Hi Ludo,

I'll try building again later (could be a while, Ceph takes a really 
long time to build), but I highly doubt that that's the case.
Btrfs subvolumes cannot be deleted with tools such as rm/rmdir, even as 
root. You have to run 'btrfs subvolume delete /subvolume' as root.
Although a regular user may create subvolumes, they cannot delete it 
(unless the USER_SUBVOL_RM_ALLOWED mount option is on).
Since the building is done as a guixbuilder user, I don't see how that 
would work.
And even if it did, if a build failed for example you'd still be left 
with a bunch of subvolumes in /tmp that can only be deleted as root.

On 2017-12-12 13:52, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi Rutger,
>
> Rutger Helling <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > I was surprised to learn that Ceph creates Btrfs subvolumes during its
> > tests.
> > This is problematic because on Btrfs regular users can create
> > subvolumes, but they cannot delete them.
> > This means I had to manually delete the following subvolumes as root:
> >
> > ID 1744 gen 819598 top level 257 path
> > tmp/guix-build-ceph-12.0.2.drv-0/td/t-7201/dev/osd0/current
> > ID 1745 gen 819598 top level 257 path
> > tmp/guix-build-ceph-12.0.2.drv-0/td/t-7201/dev/osd0/snap_1
>
> Does that mean that wiping out /tmp/guix-build-ceph-*, as happens when
> build finishes, isn't enough to get rid of those volumes?
>
> Ludo'.