podman pull writes to read only additional image store about podman HOT 5 CLOSED

@giuseppe do you know if the above is a bug? Its a blocker for our use case

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You need to precreate the lock files in the additional store.

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We have a cron job that would populate the additional storage on the node but it might not be ready before client calls podman pull. Can you explain what's the purpose of that lock file?

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We have a cron job that would populate the additional storage on the node but it might not be ready before client calls podman pull. Can you explain what's the purpose of that lock file?

It is not only a matter of ignoring the lock file. An empty directory is not a valid store and there are more things that could wrong. Make sure the store is valid before using it with Podman.

It is enough you run something like podman --root /var/lib/images images to create the store and the required files

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