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From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api v2] backup: restore: keep directories in /etc/pmg for inotify
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 10:51:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a17486-7a6f-3b67-725f-13fc8bc74ee7@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221130170727.85325-1-s.ivanov@proxmox.com>

Am 30.11.22 um 18:07 schrieb Stoiko Ivanov:
> By wiping the subdirectories in /etc/pmg/, we lose the inotify
> watchers upon restore (/etc/pmg itself and thus most configs are
> currently handled by the keep_root flag to rmtree)
> This can lead to inconsistencies after restoring for parts relying on
> config in a subdirectory (e.g. /etc/pmg/pbs/pbs.conf).
> 
> This patch uses File::Find (included in perl-modules-$perlver) to keep
> all directories an unlink everything else.
> This was chosen for future robustness over keeping an explicit list of
> directories to keep, in case a new directory gets added.
> 
> quickly tested with a fifo, chardev, and socket in the directory.
> 
> an alternative approach would be to simply reload pmgdaemon/pmgproxy
> upon config-restore, but that feels more likely to miss some
> (potentially future) service, expecting inotify to work.
> 
> Reported-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>

Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>

> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>




  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-05  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30 17:07 Stoiko Ivanov
2022-12-05  9:51 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2022-12-12 12:18 ` [pmg-devel] applied: " Thomas Lamprecht

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