Hi all,
I set up a debian machine with some containers but it use a lot of space. I figure out the problem are the vfs folders inside containers. Is there a trick to avoid this behaviour?
Thank you!
Nice. But…
You’re not saying if this is with NS8 or without. Also no information about Native or Virtualized, nor any infos about WHAT hardware you are using… Spinners, SSDs?
And: most of all: you are not providing any information about WHAT file system are you using…
I will assume you are using ext4, the worst of all current Linux file systems there is at the moment.
Slow with small files, and slow with large files. Certainly NOT the best choice! XFS, BtrFS are much better chioices for almost any Linux!
I am running at home and for my clients about 10 NS8 based systems productively - all are using Debian running in Proxmox, all use BtrFS and I do not see any disk space issue. Some clients are large, some are smaller, it was the same with NS7 (Most are migrated systems).
If you do not use the freedom OpenSource offers, and just click through “run off the mill” choices, don’t expect better…
But without any infos like I described above, it’s a waste of my and your time if I were to suggest anything, without knowing your specific environment.
As a member of the support team, you should know “vague” problems or descriptions thereoff are often a waste of time…
As supporter, you shoud know the basic difference between the statement:
“The Internet is down” (Implying Google, Facebook, whatever is down - world-wide!)
and
“My Internet is down” (Implying a router problem)
My 2 cents
Andy
You could use podman system df -v
to get the correct size:
See also podman system df shows much less disk usage than du /var/lib/containers/storage · Issue #11544 · containers/podman · GitHub or podman system df does not seem to report actual disk usage · Issue #16135 · containers/podman · GitHub
For the moment I switched back to Almalinux since the VM it’s prepared by the cloud provider and I think the problem is the filesystem as Andy said. Thank you