[pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api v2] backup: restore: keep directories in /etc/pmg for inotify

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 30.11.22 um 18:07 schrieb Stoiko Ivanov:
> By wiping the subdirectories in /etc/pmg/, we lose the inotify
> watchers upon restore (/etc/pmg itself and thus most configs are
> currently handled by the keep_root flag to rmtree)
> This can lead to inconsistencies after restoring for parts relying on
> config in a subdirectory (e.g. /etc/pmg/pbs/pbs.conf).
> 
> This patch uses File::Find (included in perl-modules-$perlver) to keep
> all directories an unlink everything else.
> This was chosen for future robustness over keeping an explicit list of
> directories to keep, in case a new directory gets added.
> 
> quickly tested with a fifo, chardev, and socket in the directory.
> 
> an alternative approach would be to simply reload pmgdaemon/pmgproxy
> upon config-restore, but that feels more likely to miss some
> (potentially future) service, expecting inotify to work.
> 
> Reported-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>

Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>

> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>