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ci(e2e): give heavy legs the blank 220 GB disk that 72 GB runners carry - #24
E2E runs can use an available blank spare disk for test work areas and Docker storage. The workflow skips disk setup when /mnt is already mounted or no eligible disk is available, and checks that Docker uses the expected storage configuration.
Documentation
Updated E2E testing guidance to describe spare-disk use, how storage is allocated across base runs and shards, and free-space limitations on runners without a spare disk.
…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.
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Walkthrough
The E2E workflow now mounts an eligible spare disk at /mnt and can place Docker data under /mnt/docker when that mount has more available space than /. The E2E documentation describes this behavior and the remaining space limits on runners without a spare disk.
Changes: E2E Runner Disk Placement
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Spare disk setup and Docker storage .github/workflows/e2e.yml, docs/testing.md, docs/lessons-learned.md
The workflow formats and mounts an eligible whole disk at /mnt. Docker uses /mnt/docker when /mnt has more available space than /, and the workflow checks the storage driver and selected data root. The documentation describes disk placement and space limits.
geiresx/OwnGenome#2: Both PRs change disk preparation and work-area selection in the E2E workflow. The merge state of PR #2 is not confirmed in the supplied context.
geiresx/OwnGenome#1: This PR changes shard planning and disk use. The current changes give the E2E legs a larger work disk and document shard disk use.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 7541a
The E2E storage change is mergeable with a documentation follow-up: shard work and Docker images can share the spare disk, despite the current description saying only images move there.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7541a
The change is confined to hosted E2E runners and includes disk-selection safeguards and Docker configuration checks. No introduced security defect was established, but actual runner layouts and interrupted-setup recovery remain unverified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — A selection or relocation failure can affect the local disks and Docker daemon of each affected E2E job. Hosted per-job isolation bounds that exposure; the inspected change does not extend authority into production infrastructure or another job's host.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The affected legs retain contents-read and actions-read permissions, with checkout credential persistence disabled. The PR adds destructive storage operations but does not add token scopes or create the existing local sudo and Docker authority.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Recovery relies on disposable hosted-runner lifecycle rather than restoring the old filesystem or Docker configuration. This limits cross-run persistence of an interrupted transition, but the same design would require reassessment before reuse on persistent or shared runners.
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Review comments at @docs/testing.md:
- Line 97: Update the disk-placement paragraph and the related comment near the
workflow’s shard configuration to reflect that shards follow the base leg’s
work-area path: when the base selects `/mnt/e2e-work`, every shard uses that
path, and a shard with a spare disk places both its work area and Docker data
root on `/mnt`. Correct the claim that these resources do not compete for one
disk.
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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.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Correct the shard disk-placement description.
If the base leg selects /mnt/e2e-work, every shard uses that path. If a shard also has a spare disk, its work area and Docker data root are both on /mnt. Update this paragraph and the comment at .github/workflows/e2e.yml Line 412, which says they do not compete for one disk.
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Review comment at @docs/testing.md at line 97:
Update the disk-placement paragraph and the related comment near the workflow’s
shard configuration to reflect that shards follow the base leg’s work-area path:
when the base selects `/mnt/e2e-work`, every shard uses that path, and a shard
with a spare disk places both its work area and Docker data root on `/mnt`.
Correct the claim that these resources do not compete for one disk.
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/mntis already mounted or no eligible disk is available, and checks that Docker uses the expected storage configuration.