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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0747849837 fix(bulk-nfs): repoint at the TrueNAS (192.168.2.30); the PVs must be recreated, not reconciled
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m53s
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Both ZFS pools moved off the Proxmox host onto a standalone TrueNAS on
192.168.2.30 -- prod's OWN /24, so the pfSense crossing that made this knob
load-bearing is gone, along with the DNAT at 192.168.2.102 it mounted through.
Measured 2026-10-07: 192.168.2.102:2049 no longer answers; .30:2049 and :111 do.

BULK_NFS_SERVER -> 192.168.2.30 in prod, base and dev. The dev value is marked
inert (dev is decommissioned); it carries the real address only so nothing in
the tree renders a host that no longer exists.

THE OPERATIONAL POINT, and why this is not just a value change: a bound
PersistentVolume's NFS source is immutable. Server dry-run, 2026-10-07:

  spec.persistentvolumesource: Forbidden: spec.persistentvolumesource is
  immutable after creation

so Flux's apply FAILS rather than updating, and the pods keep their old, dead
mount. The five PVs must be deleted and recreated -- safe, because Retain never
touches data and render.py emits a pre-set claimRef so each PV rebinds its own
PVC. The sequence is docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md section 10 and is an OPERATOR
action; this commit does not perform it.

Pairs with the hazard already on the page: spec.nfs.server is unvalidated at
create (any string binds) and immutable at update. A wrong value is accepted
silently and then cannot be corrected in place.

docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md: sections 1 and 5 rewritten for TrueNAS -- the measured
exports, the service settings that decide whether uid 1000 survives the wire,
the three stale ZFS sharenfs properties that had to be cleared, and the ACL
hazard (acltype=nfsv4 + aclinherit=passthrough means one click in the ACL editor
propagates to the whole future library). Section 7 rewritten now that the
placeholder is gone, section 9 retargeted from dev to prod, section 10 new.
Sections 2/3/4/6 are unchanged by the move.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-07 01:15:04 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 87c3d83dff fix(conformance): placeholder-guard-coupling actually RUNS — it was skipping forever
`conformance/tests/l0-static/placeholder-guard-coupling` (R-ENV-02, R-STATE-03) exited 3
SKIPPED on every gate run since it landed, because its check keyed its whole existence on
`bootstrap/standup.sh`. Measured, not assumed: that file has NEVER been on `main` — there is
no deletion commit for it anywhere; it landed only on unmerged prod-standup branches
(`work/prod-standup-campaign`, `prod/*`, `feat/prod-hardening`). It was planned and never
merged, not removed. SKIPPED is not green, and a permanently-skipped incident-derived test is
the quiet version of the failure it was written to prevent.

The skip was also hiding a RED. Run against the real `standup.sh` from
`work/prod-standup-campaign`, the old check FAILED 2 of 34 assertions — false positives from
treating the empty string as placeholder-shaped for knobs cluster-vars authors empty on
purpose (`BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX`, `VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX`, both `""` on dev and both
documented there as load-bearing). It would have false-blocked the merge landing its own input.

NOT deleted — the hazard is not gone. Split into two halves, one of which needs no guard:

  HALF A (always runs): no environment overlay ships a placeholder-shaped EFFECTIVE
  cluster-vars value; an empty effective value is STATED by the overlay rather than inherited
  in silence; a LOUD base sentinel is explicitly overridden by every overlay. This is the
  2026-09-05 outcome asserted at the source instead of at the guard — if prod's
  S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT is never a placeholder, velero cannot be pointed at a hostname that does
  not exist. Input surface is `clusters/`, all of it on `main`.

  HALF B (self-activating): the real predicate extracted and executed against those same
  values, the consumer trace, and the mid-string anchoring property.

The check NEVER exits 3 again, and the guard is DISCOVERED by content rather than hardcoded:
any tracked `*.sh` defining `<name>_is_placeholder()` is found, so a guard landing at
`bootstrap/standup.sh` — or moved into a sourceable library, the remedy the check already
recommends — activates HALF B with no edit to the test. Two files defining it is a FAIL. When
no guard exists the gap is printed loudly every run instead of swallowed as a skip.

LOUD vs EMPTY is the correction that makes it honest in both modes: a loud placeholder is
always a defect in an overlay, while `""` is held to the explicitness rule instead — and still
counts as a placeholder for a knob a guard covers, because a `""` case-arm is the guard
author's declaration that empty is not a usable target.

Proof, all reverted: 84 assertions and exit 0 on `main`; prod S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT set to the
literal `https://TBD-R2-ACCOUNT-ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com` FAILS (A1); deleting dev's
explicit VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX op so it inherits `""` FAILS (A2); a LOUD base BULK_NFS_SERVER
with prod's override deleted FAILS 2/86 (A1+A3); and with the real `standup.sh` present,
reverting `s3_is_placeholder` to the `TBD-*` PREFIX glob FAILS 12/110 (B3 anchoring). With the
pristine `standup.sh` the check PASSES at 110 assertions where the old one failed 2 of 34.

L0 layer: 14 checks, 14 PASS, 0 SKIP, 0 FAIL (was 13 PASS / 1 SKIP). Coverage unchanged —
R-ENV-02 and R-STATE-03 both still list this test, 49/51 with the same 2 gaps.

Also:
  * `ci/touched-requirements.sh` — `bootstrap/*` -> R-STATE-03 R-GITOPS-01 is KEPT, its stale
    comment corrected. It claimed standup.sh "carries the placeholder guards", describing a
    file that is not here; R-STATE-03 there is ANTICIPATORY. Deleting the entry would leave the
    change that lands a placeholder guard selected by nothing.
  * `ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh` — new path-map section (12 assertions, was 8)
    locking `bootstrap/*` and `clusters/*`, so removing either entry is a test failure rather
    than a silent loss of selection. All three ci/tests pass (12 + 31 + 15).
  * `docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md` §7 — its "nothing in the gate currently refuses a
    placeholder-shaped overlay value" is no longer true; corrected.
  * Scope re-audited: still deliberately requirement-scoped, not whole-repo. Every path that
    can break it attributes a requirement it declares.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 00:10:37 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 82aff4d053 feat(apps): attach the media library and the legacy Nextcloud dataset over NFS
plex, sonarr, radarr and nextcloud each gain one bulk volume. Authored in the catalog and
re-rendered, never hand-edited into apps/ (render-golden: 10/10). Layout, the export change the
operator must apply, the uid analysis and the validation probes are in docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md;
everything there was measured on the host over read-only SSH, not assumed.

WHAT THE LAYOUT TURNED OUT TO BE, AND WHY IT DECIDED THE DESIGN
/mnt/Storage/plex holds movies/ tv/ photos/ AND downloads/ as SIBLINGS in one dataset — so the
arrs' import source and their libraries are one filesystem on the server, and the download client's
completed folders are already named radarr/ and tv-sonarr/. The k3s arrs are joining a tree an arr
stack has been driving for a long time.

That sibling fact is the whole argument for the arrs mounting the export ROOT rather than a
subPath per directory. Sonarr and Radarr import by hardlinking or atomically renaming, both
same-filesystem operations, and to the kernel "same filesystem" means SAME MOUNT. Two subPath
mounts of one export are two mounts: link() across them returns EXDEV regardless of what the
server knows, and the arrs do not fail loudly — they degrade to copy-then-delete, rewriting every
file over NFS and destroying the seeding copy. The smallest subtree containing both tv/ and
downloads/ IS the export root, so the root mount is the MINIMAL mount that preserves hardlinks.
Least privilege bounded below by a hard requirement. The cost is stated, not hidden: sonarr can
also write /media/movies.

  plex       /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 ro   ReadOnlyMany
  sonarr     /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 rw   ReadWriteMany
  radarr     /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 rw   ReadWriteMany
  nextcloud  /mnt/Storage/nextcloud -> /mnt/legacy-nextcloud  ro   ReadOnlyMany  (subPath: nextcloud)

Plex is read-only because it indexes and streams; every write on that tree belongs to the arrs, and
saying so removes Plex from the set of things that can damage 8.33 T. All three media consumers use
the SAME mountPath deliberately: when qbittorrent is eventually given this export, the arrs and the
download client will already agree on absolute paths, which is the other precondition for hardlinked
imports.

*** /media AND NOT /data — A COLLISION CAUGHT WHILE RENDERING. *** The arrs' Longhorn config PVC
renders at the renderer default /data/config. A media mount at /data is mounted OVER it and MASKS
the config volume: the pod comes up with its app database shadowed by an 8 T media tree. That
discovery also exposed a SEPARATE PRE-EXISTING BUG, reported and deliberately NOT fixed here:
LinuxServer arr images run with -data=/config, so /data/config is very likely the wrong home for
that PVC and the app has been writing its EPHEMERAL layer — the exact failure catalog/plex.yaml's
mountPath comment records already having been bitten by. Plex was fixed; sonarr, radarr, qbittorrent
and jackett were not. Fixing it starts those apps from an empty config volume, so it needs its own
change with the operator present. This change does not make it worse.

UID/GID — THE FAILURE THIS TIER ALWAYS HAS
The export is sec=sys + no_root_squash, so the client's numeric uid passes through verbatim and the
server's ownership is the entire access story. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000, so ONLY uid 1000
can write it. LinuxServer images default to 911. Without intervention sonarr and radarr would have
mounted cleanly, gone Ready, and failed EVERY import with EACCES.

And fsGroup cannot fix that — the in-tree NFS plugin does NO ownership management, so
podSecurityContext.fsGroup is a no-op on an NFS volume. Reaching for it is how this gets
misdiagnosed. So PUID=1000/PGID=3000 are added to both arrs (PGID 3000 keeps what they write
group-readable to the live non-k3s consumers of the same export), and fsGroup: 3000 is added for
the LONGHORN config PVC only, so changing PUID does not depend on the image re-chowning /config.
plex already runs as 1000 and reads a 0755 tree; nextcloud reads as www-data. Neither needs work.

NEXTCLOUD IS MOUNTED READ-ONLY, WHICH IS A DEVIATION FROM THE BRIEF — ON EVIDENCE
The task said nextcloud writes. The dataset says otherwise: of 270 G, 267 G is config_backup/, the
rest is config/ (103 M) and config_old/ (3.4 G). There is NO data/ directory. This is the OLD
non-k3s instance's configuration plus a backup blob — an archive — and that instance is STILL LIVE
on it (exported rw to 192.168.1.6 and .5, which the operator has said must stay active). Two
Nextclouds writing one instance's config directory, each with its own database and therefore its own
oc_filecache, is unrecoverable corruption. "Do not grant more than needed" lands on ro, and ro is
the trivially reversible choice. If the intent is in fact a MIGRATION, that is a larger and more
deliberate change than a mount; the one-line flip is documented.

Read-only for nextcloud can additionally be enforced SERVER-side (only nextcloud consumes that
dataset from k3s), and the sharenfs value in the doc uses ro= for the k3s clients. The media tree
cannot: plex and the arrs may land on any node, so the server sees the same addresses for reader
and writers. Plex's ro is therefore a client-side guarantee — stated as a limitation, not left
implied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 23:54:13 -05:00