The `bulk` class has existed since Phase 0 as a deliberate stub: the StorageClass named an NFS
CSI driver that is not installed and a server/share of REPLACE-ME, so plex, sonarr, radarr and
qbittorrent all carry a comment saying "attach the library once OQ-2 is resolved". This is that
resolution — for the case that actually exists here, which is NOT the case the stub anticipated.
The stub assumed DYNAMIC provisioning: ask a CSI driver for a bulk volume and get a fresh empty
subdirectory. That is the wrong shape for this platform's bulk data. The media library is 8.33 TiB
that already exists, on ZFS datasets on the Proxmox host, with live non-k3s consumers. Nothing
needs provisioning; existing datasets need ATTACHING. So a bulk storage entry now renders a
STATIC, pre-bound NFS PersistentVolume plus its PVC, and needs no CSI driver at all (the in-tree
NFS volume source is not deprecated and has no CSI migration).
Schema 1.4.0 adds, on a storage entry:
export absolute NFS export path; REQUIRED when class is bulk, FORBIDDEN otherwise (an `if`
in the schema, so a bulk entry cannot be authored without saying what it attaches).
subPath mount a subtree instead of the volume root — any class.
readOnly any class; on bulk it also sets the PV's nfs.readOnly, so the mount really is `ro`.
The SERVER is deliberately NOT a schema field. It is the `${BULK_NFS_SERVER}` cluster-vars knob,
because dev and prod reach the SAME storage host by different addresses and R-ENV-02 says the
service definition is authored once. A ServiceDefinition says WHICH dataset; the overlay says
where the host is.
Three decisions worth the reader's time, argued in full in the r_bulk_pvs docstring:
* PV/PVC, not an inline `nfs:` pod volume. Inline is fewer objects and would work. It cannot
express `persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain`, which is the one property most worth having
in git for 8.33 TiB of data with consumers outside this cluster; it puts read-only enforcement
one Deployment edit away from silent removal; and it is invisible to `kubectl get pv,pvc`,
which is where an operator looks for attached external storage.
* storageClassName: "" on both ends, NOT the `bulk` StorageClass. Explicitly empty is the
canonical marker for a statically provisioned volume. It also sidesteps a trap: a
StorageClass's `provisioner` is IMMUTABLE, so re-pointing the deployed `bulk` stub would make
Flux fail on that object forever.
* Access mode is always `…Many` and follows the read/write posture — ReadOnlyMany for a reader,
ReadWriteMany for a writer. One export is consumed by several namespaces AND several nodes at
once, which is exactly what ReadWriteOnce cannot express; which `Many` it is then makes the
intent legible in `kubectl get pv`.
mountOptions are a platform decision held in the renderer rather than a per-service field:
nfsvers=4.1,hard,noatime,timeo=600,retrans=2. NFSv4 carries mount and lock in-protocol, so the
only port that must be reachable is tcp/2049 — no rpcbind/111, mountd or statd. That is a
firewall decision as much as a storage one. `hard` over `soft` because a soft mount converts a
server hiccup into a short read handed to the application.
The contract doc records the trap that will otherwise be discovered in production: fsGroup is a
NO-OP on an NFS volume (the in-tree plugin does no ownership management), so a writable bulk mount
requires the container's own uid/gid to suit the export's ownership. A mount that succeeds and
then cannot write is this tier's characteristic failure.
Every pre-existing golden renders byte-identical: the new keys are emitted only when declared, and
`readOnly` defaults to False. render-golden: 10/10. selftest: PASS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
jakman85andClaude Opus 5