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ci(e2e): give heavy legs the blank 220 GB disk that 72 GB runners carry - #304
A heavy E2E leg can land on a hosted runner that is too small for it. Shard 1 of #297's run https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/42018365546 had 16 GB free before its cases. Main's run of the same 9 cases (https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/41995719742, shard 1) had 89 GB free and dropped to 63 GB at the lowest, so those cases need about 26 GB. On the small runner, DeepVariant's lazy pull inside the Nextflow run failed with "no space left on device", and four cases failed. The 10 GB gate let the leg through.
Why that runner had 16 GB
Its root disk is 72 GB (/dev/nvme0n1p1), against 145 GB on the others. After the clean-up it had 48 GB free, and 50 GB after the image prune. The cache images and the pre-pull then took it to 20 GB free, and the base outputs to 16 GB.
/mnt was not missing and was not skipped by the pick: it is a plain directory on the same root disk, so the work-area pick had nothing better to take.
The runner does have a second disk, and nothing uses it. A probe of 12 runners (https://github.com/geiresx/OwnGenome/actions/runs/42037810203) found one 72 GB ubuntu-26.04 runner, and lsblk on it showed nvme1n1: 220.7 GB, no partition, no file system, not mounted. The eleven 145 GB runners have no such disk.
Fix
New first step, "Mount a spare disk": it looks for a whole disk with no partition, no file system and no mount point. If it finds one, it formats it ext4 (-E nodiscard, a few seconds) and mounts it at /mnt. On runners without such a disk it does nothing.
The existing work-area pick then takes /mnt, because it has more room than /.
"Docker image store" sets data-root to /mnt/docker when /mnt is a mount with more room than /. It fails if Docker doesn't report that root after the restart.
The base outputs unpack only under the base leg's work area, so a shard's work area follows the base leg's. On a small shard runner with a base from a big one, only the images move to the spare disk. That still frees the roughly 30 GB that images take on /.
This is a fix, not only an earlier failure, for every runner that has the blank disk. A 72 GB runner without one would still fail a heavy leg in its cases. We have not seen such a runner: in the probe, the one 72 GB runner had the disk. The 10 GB gate does not change.
Evidence
Probe of the two new steps on 16 runners, plus a DeepVariant pull landing on the data root: (link added when it ends)
Fork E2E on this branch: (link added when it ends)
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Chores
E2E runs now use an available blank disk for Docker storage and, on the base run, the work area. Without a spare disk, runs report its absence.
The workflow verifies Docker is using the expected storage driver and, when applicable, the spare disk.
Documentation
Updated E2E testing guidance with disk usage, shard storage behavior, and free-space checks.
…d work
Some hosted runners pair a 72 GB root disk with a blank 220 GB NVMe disk
that nothing mounts; a heavy leg on one ran out of disk with 16 GB free.
The leg now formats and mounts it at /mnt, and Docker's data root and the
work area go there.
The E2E workflow mounts an available blank disk at /mnt. When that disk has more free space than /, the workflow configures Docker to store data at /mnt/docker and validates the resulting configuration. Documentation describes the disk and work-area behavior.
Changes: E2E storage setup
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Summary
Detect and mount spare disk .github/workflows/e2e.yml, docs/testing.md
The E2E leg formats and mounts an unmounted blank disk at /mnt when one is available. The documentation describes work-area selection, shard storage, and the free-space gate.
When /mnt is mounted and has more free space than /, the Docker step sets data-root to /mnt/docker. It reports the data root and checks the storage driver and selected root.
GeiserX/OwnGenome#300: Both PRs address E2E disk exhaustion during image pulls; this PR adds spare-disk storage to the Docker setup.
GeiserX/OwnGenome#251: This PR’s documentation describes the base-leg work area that shard legs continue to use.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 7541a
The change is mergeable with minor documentation corrections: shard work files can also use the spare disk, and storage selection depends on available space. No concrete runtime blocker was established.
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Review comments at @docs/lessons-learned.md:
- Line 621: Update the lesson’s “work-area pick” and “Docker image store”
description to state that each step compares available space before selecting
/mnt; clarify that if /mnt has less available space than /, neither step selects
it, even after the blank disk is mounted.
Review comments at @docs/testing.md:
- Line 111: Update the shard work-area sentence in the e2e-run description to
state that a shard’s work files use the base leg’s selected work-area location:
`/mnt/e2e-work` when the base leg selected it, or the default work area
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- **Failed:** shard 1 of #297's run 42018365546 had 16 GB free before its cases, where main's run of the same cases had 89 GB free and used 26 GB at peak. DeepVariant's lazy pull inside the Nextflow run then failed with "no space left on device", and four cases failed.
- **Why:** `ubuntu-latest` gives some legs a runner whose root disk is 72 GB. `/mnt` is a plain directory on that disk, so the work area pick found no second disk. The runner does have one: a blank NVMe disk (220.7 GB, no partition, no file system, nothing mounted), seen with `lsblk` in probe run 42037810203.
- **Fix:** the leg's first step formats a blank whole disk and mounts it at `/mnt`; the work-area pick then takes `/mnt`, and the "Docker image store" step sets Docker's `data-root` to `/mnt/docker`.
If /mnt has less available space than / at each check, neither step selects it, even after a blank disk is mounted. State that each step compares available space before selecting /mnt.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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Review comment at @docs/lessons-learned.md at line 621:
Update the lesson’s “work-area pick” and “Docker image store” description to
state that each step compares available space before selecting /mnt; clarify
that if /mnt has less available space than /, neither step selects it, even
after the blank disk is mounted.
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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr
Before the first case of a full run, and of every leg, `e2e-run.sh` pulls every image the cases use that is not on the machine yet: the `NAME_IMAGE` lines of `versions.env` and of the case files, less a list of images no case runs. A pull that fails with a registry 5xx is tried again, up to four tries in all, 20, 40 and 80 seconds apart. Any other error, such as a missing tag or a rate limit, fails the job at once, and the tools' own `docker run` is never retried. A Docker Hub 500 on one image's manifest is what failed main's run 37980248545 the first time. `scripts/ci/e2e-run.sh --self-test-pull` checks the retry against a fake docker, and `e2e-plan` runs it. A run given a pattern skips the pre-pull, because most images reach a case through the steps it runs and cannot be picked per case; its cases pull their own images, with one try each. The five largest images (DeepVariant, PharmCAT, GATK, MEGAnE and VNtyper, 1.9 to 6.0 GB each to download, none of them in the image cache) are left out of the pre-pull: the docker shim `tests/e2e/bin/docker` pulls one, with the same retry, when a case first runs it, and removes it when that case ends, so a leg holds at most one of them at a time. The image cache keys start with `e2e-images-ovl-`: archives saved from containerd's store did not all load into overlay2.
Each leg switches Docker to the classic overlay2 image store before it restores or pulls an image. Docker 29 on the ubuntu-26.04 runner image uses containerd's store, which keeps every layer twice (the compressed blob and the unpacked copy): DeepVariant's, GATK's and VNtyper's images took 24.8 GB there and 17.6 GB on overlay2, and the legs that landed on a 72 GB runner (48 GB free) ran out of disk in the pre-pull (run 41938436657). Before its first case `e2e-run.sh` fails the leg when less than `E2E_MIN_FREE_GB` is free under the work area (10 GB in `e2e.yml`), and after the cases it prints the least free space it saw while they ran.
Each leg switches Docker to the classic overlay2 image store before it restores or pulls an image. Docker 29 on the ubuntu-26.04 runner image uses containerd's store, which keeps every layer twice (the compressed blob and the unpacked copy): DeepVariant's, GATK's and VNtyper's images took 24.8 GB there and 17.6 GB on overlay2, and the legs that landed on a 72 GB runner (48 GB free) ran out of disk in the pre-pull (run 41938436657). Before its first case `e2e-run.sh` fails the leg when less than `E2E_MIN_FREE_GB` is free under the work area (10 GB in `e2e.yml`), and after the cases it prints the least free space it saw while they ran. Some hosted runners have a 72 GB root disk (about 50 GB free after the clean-up) and a second, blank NVMe disk (220.7 GB on the one we measured); the 145 GB runners have none. Each leg formats such a disk and mounts it at `/mnt` before anything else, and then Docker's data root (`/mnt/docker`) and, on the base leg, the work area go there. A shard's work area follows the base leg's, so on a shard only the images move. A 72 GB runner without a spare disk still has only about 16 GB free before a shard's cases, which the heaviest legs do not fit (they used 26 to 33 GB); the `E2E_MIN_FREE_GB` gate stops only the legs below 10 GB.
nl -ba .github/workflows/e2e.yml | sed -n '635,750p'
nl -ba .github/workflows/e2e.yml | sed -n '1020,1060p'
nl -ba scripts/ci/e2e-run.sh | sed -n '20,40p;70,83p;560,575p;625,650p;890,920p'
nl -ba tests/e2e/lib.sh | sed -n '1,40p'
nl -ba docs/testing.md | sed -n '95,114p'
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Correct the shard work-area description.
If the base leg selects /mnt/e2e-work and a shard mounts a spare disk at /mnt, the shard’s work files also use that disk. Update the sentence to describe both possible work-area locations.
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[grammar] ~111-~111: Ensure spelling is correct
Context: ...packed copy): DeepVariant's, GATK's and VNtyper's images took 24.8 GB there and 17.6 GB o...
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Review comment at @docs/testing.md at line 111:
Update the shard work-area sentence in the e2e-run description to state that a
shard’s work files use the base leg’s selected work-area location:
`/mnt/e2e-work` when the base leg selected it, or the default work area
otherwise.
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Problem
A heavy E2E leg can land on a hosted runner that is too small for it. Shard 1 of #297's run https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/42018365546 had 16 GB free before its cases. Main's run of the same 9 cases (https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/41995719742, shard 1) had 89 GB free and dropped to 63 GB at the lowest, so those cases need about 26 GB. On the small runner, DeepVariant's lazy pull inside the Nextflow run failed with "no space left on device", and four cases failed. The 10 GB gate let the leg through.
Why that runner had 16 GB
/dev/nvme0n1p1), against 145 GB on the others. After the clean-up it had 48 GB free, and 50 GB after the image prune. The cache images and the pre-pull then took it to 20 GB free, and the base outputs to 16 GB./mntwas not missing and was not skipped by the pick: it is a plain directory on the same root disk, so the work-area pick had nothing better to take.lsblkon it showednvme1n1: 220.7 GB, no partition, no file system, not mounted. The eleven 145 GB runners have no such disk.Fix
-E nodiscard, a few seconds) and mounts it at/mnt. On runners without such a disk it does nothing./mnt, because it has more room than/.data-rootto/mnt/dockerwhen/mntis a mount with more room than/. It fails if Docker doesn't report that root after the restart.The base outputs unpack only under the base leg's work area, so a shard's work area follows the base leg's. On a small shard runner with a base from a big one, only the images move to the spare disk. That still frees the roughly 30 GB that images take on
/.This is a fix, not only an earlier failure, for every runner that has the blank disk. A 72 GB runner without one would still fail a heavy leg in its cases. We have not seen such a runner: in the probe, the one 72 GB runner had the disk. The 10 GB gate does not change.
Evidence
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