On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:28 AM Robert [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My comments are inline
>
> On 10/08/2021 18:06, Ramon Fried wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm working on the bring-up of Kubernetes worker node on Xilinx
> > Versal. (ARM A72)
> > The storage media (NOR flash) is too small, and I'm running all the
> > filesystems as tmpfs, which I load at boot time.
> >
> > I'm experiencing a lot of issues bringing up Docker and Kubernetes
> > together this way, it seems that running these from tmpfs is not that
> > trivial.
>
> I am not sure you can run an overlayfs over a tmpfs - never tried that.
>
> > The overlayfs causes real weird issues where suddenly the proc fs is
> > unmounted, symbolic links that stop working, etc.
> >
> > Did anyone succeed running Kubernetes with Docker using the overlayfs2 
> > plugin ?
> > I saw on the Docker manual, that overlayfs2 only supports ext4, I'm
> > wondering if I'm on the right track.
>
> I typically use an SD card (big enough) and dedicate a btrfs partition
> for containers and/or kubernetes.
>
> e.g. /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /var/lib/rancher type btrfs
> (rw,noatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/)
>
> This seems to work fine and as a nice side effect I can use btrfs
> subvolumes for snapshots.
>
> kubernetes writes to a subvolume /var/lib/rancher/k3s and I can do
> snapshots e.g. to /var/lib/rancher/snapshot/k3s/xxx
>
> root@k3s-node-1:/var/lib/rancher# btrfs subvolume list /var/lib/rancher
> ID 257 gen 16 top level 5 path k3s
> ID 258 gen 22 top level 5 path snapshot
> ID 260 gen 21 top level 258 path snapshot/k3s/2021-08-10-11:25:17
> ID 261 gen 21 top level 258 path snapshot/k3s/2021-08-10-11:28:00
>
> >
> > Would love to share notes.
> > Thanks,
> > Ramon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
>
Thanks Robert,
I finally managed to run Kubernetes by setting the storage driver to
"vfs", although Kubernetes complains in pre-flight, it actually works.
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