[Bug 1316210] New: Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316210

Bug ID: 1316210
           Summary: Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: docker-io
          Severity: medium
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Description of problem:

When using terraform to bring up a new EC2 instance with Docker, I wanted to
modify the dm.basesize option before starting Docker. To do this, my script
adds a line to the /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage file:

DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS= --storage-opt dm.basesize=50G

However, when it then tries to start Docker with systemctl start docker.service
I was getting an error:

Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: Unknown option
dm.basesize

I had used this same line before, but realized that it was after Docker had
been started at least once on the server. So then I changed things to:

systemctl start docker.service
    Add the line to /etc/sysconfigdocker-storage
    systemctl restart docker.service

This works fine. Maybe Docker needs to be started at least once on the server
in order to initialize the storage subsystem somehow? Before that's done, it
doesn't recognize the storage option. This is sort of crazy, so is there a
proper fix/workaround?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Output of "docker version": Docker version 1.7.1, build 446ad9b/1.7.1
This is on AWS EC2, running CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core).

I first asked this as an issue against Docker
(https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/21037) but they said since it's a Red
Hat-supported build of Docker it should be asked here.

[Bug 1316210] Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started

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Lokesh Mandvekar  changed:

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          Component|docker-io                   |docker
           Assignee|[e-mail]         |[e-mail]

--- Comment #1 from Lokesh Mandvekar  ---
changing component to 'docker'. 'docker-io' isn't used anymore.

[Bug 1316210] Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started

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Daniel Walsh  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
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--- Comment #2 from Daniel Walsh  ---
Stephen can you check if this is actually a bug.  I don't think it is.

[Bug 1316210] Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #3 from Stephen Chung  ---
Right, I agree with Dan, I think it was a misunderstanding of the options
available for the config file. The option in the config file should be
EXTRA_DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS. I think the user wanted to directly append the
dm.basesize command to the DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS seen in the default
/usr/lib/docker-storage-setup/docker-storage-setup config file.

[Bug 1316210] Cannot set dm.basesize until docker has been started

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316210

Daniel Walsh  changed:

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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2016-06-03 13:27:14