Jira (PUP-6397) File autorequire in Mount causes dependency loops

[Thomas Equeter (JIRA)]

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Thomas Equeter created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6397 File autorequire in Mount causes dependency loops Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 4.5.1, PUP 4.5.0 Assignee: Kylo Ginsberg Components: Types and Providers Created: 2016/06/09 10:05 AM Environment: Linux Priority: Normal Reporter: Thomas Equeter One of the autorequires added to Mount in 4.5.0 causes dependency loops in our install. See Acceptance Criteria first for a sample use case. The root cause is the File type assuming that the path is a unique identifier (namevar), while that's not true when Mounts are involved. PUP-6099 broke the workaround for that situation. When /x is a mountpoint, there are actually two /x directories: the mountpoint on the parent filesystem (/x in the / filesystem, invisible once mounted) and mounted directory (the root of the mounted /x filesystem). These two directories are different system objects and may have different owners/modes/etc. The mountpoint is just a technical prerequisite to make mount work. What we usually want to manage in depth is the mounted directory. However, PUP-6099 makes Puppet only manage the mountpoint: File[/x] -> Mount[/x] # Forced by PUP-6099 Mountpoint[/x] -> Mount[/x] -> File[/x] # What we would want to do With Mountpoint a (not yet written) lightweight File clone that just ensures directory existence and root-ownership. So far I used an Exec hack as a quick workaround. Why it is important that File manages the mounted directory and not the mountpoint: This is where the content lives and where we want the full power of the File type. Doing otherwise breaks modules which manage the mounted directory as a File (see Acceptance Criteria). Suggested course of action: roll back the autorequire (lib/puppet/type/mount.rb:301) until a resolution for the more general issue described above is available. At the very least, please make it optional. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.13#64028-sha1:b7939e9) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.