Re: [PATCH pmg-api v2] fix #7407: cluster: report: increase maximal filesize to 2M

["Shannon Sterz" <s.sterz@proxmox.com>]

On Mon Mar 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM CET, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> the postfix configuration files are read via PVE::INotify in our
> stack and have not implicit limit.
>
> PMG::Cluster and PMG::Report do read the same file's contents using
> `file_get_contents` with a limit (explicitly set, or implicit) of 1M.
>
> This causes the cluster-sync to fail in one reported deployment
> hosting ~40k domains, with explicit transport entries and comments
> (resulting in a 1.4M /etc/pmg/transport).
>
> As it's the first occurrence of this causing an issue doubling the
> limit to 2M, instead of increasing it further seems appropriate.

nit: probably want to adapt this line and the subject if this requires a
v3 ;)

> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
> ---
> v1->v2:
> * increase size to 4M based on feedback from Dominik - thx!
>
>  src/PMG/Cluster.pm | 4 ++--
>  src/PMG/Report.pm  | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/PMG/Cluster.pm b/src/PMG/Cluster.pm
> index 02d727ee..3e0b12ac 100644
> --- a/src/PMG/Cluster.pm
> +++ b/src/PMG/Cluster.pm
> @@ -266,10 +266,10 @@ my $cond_commit_synced_file = sub {
>          return;
>      }
>
> -    my $new = PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($srcfn, 1024 * 1024);
> +    my $new = PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($srcfn, 4096 * 1024);
>
>      if (-f $dstfn) {
> -        my $old = PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($dstfn, 1024 * 1024);
> +        my $old = PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($dstfn, 4096 * 1024);
>          return 0 if $new eq $old;
>      }
>
> diff --git a/src/PMG/Report.pm b/src/PMG/Report.pm
> index 84d1b887..58756c77 100644
> --- a/src/PMG/Report.pm
> +++ b/src/PMG/Report.pm
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ sub dir2text {
>          sub {
>              my ($file) = @_;
>              $report .= "\n# cat $target_dir$file\n";
> -            $report .= PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($target_dir . $file) . "\n";
> +            $report .= PVE::Tools::file_get_contents($target_dir . $file, 4096 * 1024) . "\n";
>          },
>      );
>  }