I use docker and portainer rather intensely on omv managing a bunch of crap. I structure most of the containers to have configs in one sharedfolder and content in another and map to those so really the only thing the container has locally is itself, so I can cycle em out and backup the configs and such to another storage on their own. This is helpful for plex cause it's a hog with its config dir so that goes on a faster drive separate from a larger media pool which is also on its own drive.
Anyway, the issue I'm having and this has surfaced a few times is that if the sharedfolders for whatever reason, maybe on boot? aren't available to the containers in time, the containers will write to the path /sharedfolders/stuff, and then even if the sharedfolders gets mounted right after, the app is writing underneath, then the disk fills up and OMV interface isn't accessible, and my / volume is full. Then I have to reboot, comment out the two drives that were mapped to these shares, delete the content that was written to the real / path on the local disk, and reboot the instance.
I'm not sure why in all the cases this has happened but I'm thinking maybe this isn't the best way, using sharedfolders, for docker like this but i'm not really sure about how to do this as an alternative. If I can mount a new disk somewhere else that guarantees it won't mount it if the disk isn't available, perhaps that's the right way, just not sure off the top of my head that's any different than what the shared folders is doing.
How do the sharedfolders map to the device? It seems like some hybrid between mounting and symlinking but i'm not familiar with how they work.
Maybe I should just write to the full /srv/dev-disk-xyz-0123 path?
Even in the time I wrote this, had to restart some containers after reboot, some of the underlying fs filled up"
before
/dev/sda1 98730 5293 88404 6% /
a little later I think after I restarted the containers
/dev/sda1 98730 74283 19414 80% /Is there a way to delay the docker service from starting until the end of the boot up cycle?
