docs(esh-pve-nas): record the blocked-patching driver and the upgrade ordering
The operator-visible symptom is that PVE cannot be updated on this box for lack of room. Measured: 225 packages pending, 161 carrying deb12uN/Debian-Security bumps including ssh, against esh-pve's 8.4.14 versus this host's 8.4.11 and 20 weeks of uptime. Records the ordering explicitly -- migrate first, upgrade after. The pending set includes proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-42-pve-signed, roughly 250 MB of kernel plus initramfs landing in /boot which is on root with 1.3 GB free. Unpacking 225 packages including dpkg and perl into that headroom risks filling the disk mid-transaction and wedging dpkg on a hypervisor running five guests. Notes the apt archive-dir redirect as a partial escape hatch if patching cannot wait, and that zfs-initramfs 2.2.8 is fully capable of root-on-ZFS so there is no need to upgrade ZFS before migrating.
This commit is contained in:
@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@ unremarkable and **wear is not the driver**. The actual problems:
|
||||
filesystem* out from under a running hypervisor while its guests keep going.
|
||||
2. **6 GB has no headroom** — `/usr` alone is 3.7 GB.
|
||||
3. **Unmirrored**, while 928 GB of mirrored NVMe sits 96% empty.
|
||||
4. **It has blocked patching for months.** This is the operator-visible symptom
|
||||
and the real urgency: `apt-get -s dist-upgrade` shows **225 packages pending,
|
||||
161 of them carrying `deb12uN` / Debian-Security bumps** — including `ssh
|
||||
1:9.2p1-2+deb12u10`. The host sits on `pve-manager/8.4.11` while its sibling
|
||||
esh-pve is on 8.4.14, and it has 20 weeks of uptime because it cannot take a
|
||||
kernel.
|
||||
|
||||
⚠ **Do not attempt the upgrade before the migration.** The pending set
|
||||
includes `proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-42-pve-signed` (from -13) — a signed kernel
|
||||
plus initramfs is ~250 MB, and **`/boot` is on root**, which has 1.3 GB free.
|
||||
225 packages unpacking (dpkg, perl, glibc-adjacent) into that headroom risks
|
||||
filling the disk mid-transaction and leaving a broken dpkg state on a
|
||||
hypervisor running five guests. Recovering a wedged dpkg on a full root is
|
||||
far worse than waiting for the reboot.
|
||||
|
||||
If patching genuinely cannot wait, the escape hatch is to keep downloads off
|
||||
root — `apt-get -o Dir::Cache::Archives=/nvme/tmp/apt-archives dist-upgrade`
|
||||
— but the kernel still lands in `/boot` on root, so this reduces the risk
|
||||
rather than removing it. Migrating first is the shorter path to safety.
|
||||
|
||||
## The design: boot on the DOM, root on ZFS
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -63,7 +82,8 @@ Verified on the host 2026-08-17:
|
||||
- **UEFI** firmware, `grub-efi-amd64 2.06-13+pmx7` installed
|
||||
- **`zfs-initramfs 2.2.8-pve1` is already installed**, and the running initrd
|
||||
already carries **76 ZFS files** — the pivot capability exists today, no new
|
||||
packages
|
||||
packages. (The pending upgrade would take ZFS to 2.2.10-pve1; 2.2.8 is fully
|
||||
capable of root-on-ZFS, so migrate on what is installed and upgrade after.)
|
||||
- `/boot` is currently *part of* root (108 MB), so it must be split out onto its
|
||||
own ext4 filesystem on the DOM as part of this work
|
||||
- root is only **4.3 GB** to copy
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user