# esh-pve-nas cutover, step 3 of 5 — point the ESP at the new /boot and reboot. # # Run: scripts/elway root@esh-pve-nas --playbook playbooks/esh-cutover-3-esh-pve-nas.yaml # # PRECONDITION: steps 1 and 2 must have run. Both NFS clients hold `hard` mounts # from CT 103 which lives on this host; taking it down with them mounted wedges # esh-docker-vm in unkillable D-state. A guard below refuses to proceed if either # client is still mounted. # # ⚠ ORDERING TRAP, and it is the reason this is a playbook and not four commands: # `zfs set mountpoint=/` on a dataset that is CURRENTLY MOUNTED makes ZFS unmount # and REMOUNT it at the new location — i.e. it would try to mount the ZFS root # over the live ext4 root of a running hypervisor. canmount=noauto does not save # you; that governs automatic mounting at import, not an explicit property change # on a mounted dataset. The dataset must be UNMOUNTED first, which means the # chroot binds have to come down first, which means grub-install and grub-reboot # have to happen BEFORE any of that. Hence the sequence below is not negotiable. # # This playbook ENDS BY REBOOTING THE HOST. elway will lose the connection; that # is expected, not a failure. vars: newroot: /mnt/newroot root_dataset: nvme/ROOT/pve-1 quiesced: "no" # caller MUST pass --var quiesced=yes after verifying both clients steps: # ---------- guards ---------- - name: GUARD — still on the ext4 root (not already cut over) shell: | test "$(findmnt -no FSTYPE /)" = "ext4" || { echo "already on ZFS; refusing"; exit 1; } changed_when: "false" # This host has no ssh keys to the NFS clients, so the caller verifies their # mount tables and attests via --var quiesced=yes. # # ⚠ THE RUNBOOK'S BLAST RADIUS WAS WRONG. It named two dependents. `ss` on CT 103 # showed FIVE distinct clients on 2026-08-18: # 10.0.50.45 esh-docker-vm hard -> quiesced by step 1 # 10.0.250.35 esh-pve hard -> quiesced by step 2 # 10.0.50.60 esh-vm-db hard -> DELIBERATELY LEFT MOUNTED (see below) # 10.0.50.154 vm-esh-nas n/a -> is VM 104 on THIS host; dies with it # 10.100.10.50 nh3-dev soft,ro -> errors instead of blocking; safe # # esh-vm-db is left mounted on purpose. It is a backup TARGET with no live user: # resticprofile-backup and postgresql-dump next fire ~19h out, and a hard mount # with nothing actively using it blocks and then resumes when the server returns # — that is what `hard` is for. Unmounting it would mean an unmount/remount cycle # over the qemu guest agent on a host with no ssh access, where a failed remount # breaks backups silently. Leaving it is the lower-risk branch, not the lazy one. # The gate is `quiesced`, which the CALLER sets only after checking each client's # mount table directly (this host has no ssh to them; see step 1/2 playbooks). # # ⚠ It deliberately does NOT gate on server-side NFS session count. Measured # 2026-08-18: esh-docker-vm's sessions drained within ~90s, but esh-pve held 11 # established connections to :2049 indefinitely with NO mounts in either # `findmnt` or `/proc/mounts` and nothing holding a cwd there. That is the Linux # NFSv4 client keeping its transport alive past the last unmount, and it is the # wrong thing to gate on: the failure this whole runbook exists to prevent is a # process blocking on a MOUNTED hard filesystem when the server vanishes. With no # mount there is nothing to block on — an idle socket to a departing server just # resets. Gating on sessions would have stalled the window forever on a condition # that never clears and never mattered. - name: GUARD — caller has confirmed both hard-NFS clients are unmounted shell: | test "{{ quiesced }}" = "yes" || { echo "run playbooks 1 and 2 and confirm client mount tables first"; exit 1; } echo "caller attests: esh-docker-vm and esh-pve carry no esh-nas mounts" echo "--- server-side sessions, informational only ---" pct exec 103 -- ss -tnH state established '( sport = :2049 )' 2>/dev/null \ | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/:[0-9]*$//' | sort | uniq -c || true changed_when: "false" - name: GUARD — staging artifacts are all present shell: | mountpoint -q {{ newroot }} || { echo "{{ newroot }} not mounted"; exit 1; } mountpoint -q {{ newroot }}/boot || { echo "boot LV not in the chroot"; exit 1; } grep -q pve-zfs-root {{ newroot }}/boot/grub/grub.cfg || { echo "no ZFS entry"; exit 1; } grep -q 'saved_entry=pve-ext4-rollback' {{ newroot }}/boot/grub/grubenv || { echo "grubenv not pinned to rollback"; exit 1; } changed_when: "false" # ---------- stop the guests, NAS last ---------- - name: Stop the guests (reverse of startup order — CT 103, the NAS, goes last) shell: | for v in 105 106 107; do pct status $v 2>/dev/null | grep -q running && pct shutdown $v --timeout 90 || true; done qm status 104 2>/dev/null | grep -q running && qm shutdown 104 --timeout 90 || true for i in $(seq 1 30); do running=$( (pct list | awk 'NR>1 && $2=="running"'; qm list | awk 'NR>1 && $3=="running"') | wc -l ) [ "$running" -le 1 ] && break sleep 3 done pct status 103 2>/dev/null | grep -q running && pct shutdown 103 --timeout 90 || true sleep 3 echo "--- remaining ---"; pct list; qm list changed_when: "true" # ---------- the actual cutover ---------- - name: Point the ESP at the new /boot LV shell: | chroot {{ newroot }} grub-install --target=x86_64-efi \ --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=proxmox changed_when: "true" - name: Verify the ESP stub now points at the /boot LV, not the ext4 root shell: | BOOT_UUID=$(blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/mapper/pve-boot) grep -q "$BOOT_UUID" {{ newroot }}/boot/efi/EFI/proxmox/grub.cfg || { echo "ESP stub does NOT reference the boot LV — aborting before reboot"; exit 1; } echo "ESP stub -> boot LV $BOOT_UUID" changed_when: "false" - name: Arm the ONE-SHOT ZFS boot (default stays pinned to the ext4 rollback) shell: | chroot {{ newroot }} grub-reboot pve-zfs-root grep -o 'next_entry=.*' {{ newroot }}/boot/grub/grubenv grep -o 'saved_entry=.*' {{ newroot }}/boot/grub/grubenv changed_when: "true" # ---------- tear the chroot down so the dataset can be unmounted ---------- - name: Unmount the chroot, innermost first shell: | for m in proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc proc sys dev/pts dev/shm dev/mqueue dev/hugepages dev boot/efi boot; do mountpoint -q {{ newroot }}/$m && umount -R {{ newroot }}/$m 2>/dev/null || true done findmnt -R {{ newroot }} -o TARGET | tail -n +2 || echo " (nothing left under {{ newroot }})" changed_when: "true" - name: Unmount the ZFS root dataset BEFORE changing its mountpoint shell: zfs unmount {{ root_dataset }} when: "mountpoint -q {{ newroot }}" - name: Set the dataset's final mountpoint (safe only now that it is unmounted) shell: | zfs set mountpoint=/ {{ root_dataset }} zfs get -H -o value mountpoint,canmount {{ root_dataset }} | tr '\n' ' '; echo # paranoia: the live root must STILL be the ext4 LV at this instant test "$(findmnt -no SOURCE /)" = "/dev/mapper/pve-root" || { echo "ZFS MOUNTED OVER THE LIVE ROOT — do not reboot, investigate"; exit 1; } changed_when: "true" - name: Final pre-reboot assertion shell: | echo "root now: $(findmnt -no SOURCE,FSTYPE /)" echo "dataset: $(zfs get -H -o value mounted {{ root_dataset }}) mounted, canmount=$(zfs get -H -o value canmount {{ root_dataset }})" echo "next_entry: $(grep -o 'next_entry=.*' {{ newroot }}/boot/grub/grubenv 2>/dev/null || echo '(grubenv not readable — boot LV is unmounted, expected)')" changed_when: "false" - name: REBOOT — connection loss here is expected shell: systemd-run --on-active=3 --timer-property=AccuracySec=1s /sbin/reboot changed_when: "true"