oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron

Nexus overprovisions disks with control plane zones on them

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Description

This appears to be the root cause of #7221: Nexus provisioned so many Crucible regions on one disk that the CockroachDB zone whose root filesystem and database filesystem were both on the same pool ran out of space.

There are many ways to deal with this, with different tradeoffs. I'll post a few notes from the earlier control plane discussion.

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Research direction

Start by tracing Nexus's Crucible-region provisioning and how CockroachDB control-plane zones share a disk pool. The issue provides no files, tests, or settled approach; review the earlier control-plane discussion and establish an agreed policy before defining completion as preventing root and database filesystems from exhausting their shared pool.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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