DELETED /usr/local

[vermaden]

With this in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf config:

BASEFS=/poudriere
ZROOTFS=/usr/local/poudriere
POUDRIERE_DATA=/usr/local/poudriere/data

After creating first Jail - like that command below:

# poudriere jail -c -j 14-1-R-amd64 -v 14.1-RELEASE

Entire /usr/local will be deleted.

Why?

[vermaden]

While this in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf config does NOT destroy entire /usr/local dir.

BASEFS=/usr/local/poudriere
ZROOTFS=/poudriere
POUDRIERE_DATA=/usr/local/poudriere/data

[vermaden]

So the 'problem' seems to be ZROOTFS from my understanding ...

[bileslav]

Oh, hi, that's the thing I emailed you about some time ago. I hope no one got hurt too badly because of this. Backups, backups, backups...

[vermaden]

@bileslav

Yes - I remember - I will add a warning to the article with link to this issue.

What is even more interesting ... there is NOTHING there at ZROOTFS place ...

root@poudriere-14-2:~ # find /poudriere/
/poudriere/
/poudriere/jails
root@poudriere-14-2:~ # 

[vermaden]

Interesting ... I have just set ZROOTFS to /dev/null and everything still works ...

root@poudriere-14-2:~ # grep ^ZROOTFS /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf
ZROOTFS=/dev/null

[MirLach]

What version of Poudriere?
Do you have ZPOOL set?

I am using this for a long time

ZPOOL=tank1
ZROOTFS=/vol1/poudriere
BASEFS=/vol1/poudriere
POUDRIERE_DATA=${BASEFS}/data

[vermaden]

Great. But why it deletes /usr/local dir?

I already found a solution that works with ZROOTFS set to /dev/null value.

Fix the problem - do not seek the solution in workarounds.

It has to be bulletproof - not kill each user that did not lost tons of data by trying ...

[MirLach]

I haven't looked at the sources, but isn't it possible that it must not be a directory / filesystem that is already occupied by other data, because Poudriere is trying to create other sub-filesystems in it?
I agree that it should have some sort of security check so that the user doesn't lose data.

If I understand it right, the BASEFS is the target mount point, ZROOTFS is the filesystem under the ZPOOL.

In your case from the first post, is it true that the filesystem /usr/local/poudriere is set to mount under /poudriere?
Do you have ZPOOL set right?

[bdrewery]

Whatever the reason for this, it is definitely NOT OKAY. We need a validation to prevent this. I'll look into it if no one else gets to it.