Portainer / Dockge App Locations

I updated to Electric Eel RC1 to get started with docker.
I set up Gluetun & qBittorrent on a jail before the update with no issues.
After updating, I’m getting an error on qBittorrent.
Not sure what the cause is. In the config folder, there is no log or anything being written.

Here is my compose.yaml

My dataset structure & perms


Maybe this helps

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For some odd reason we are still being tied to .ix/ hidden volumes and not allowing us to just set a host path for everything like we would on any other linux system. It seems to be breaking so many permissions and good luck managing your volumes because a random new auto named one will be created everytime you restart portainer because of this.

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Maybe this helps :grin:

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Sucks even with full docker now on electric eel we still have to resort to doing jails to get around the arbitrary bs. Not sure why we can’t just set the mount point in our own dataset to store everything, app data, etc. when we already are asked to set the pool to use when setting up apps anyways, just that one more step so that everyone doesn’t have to play games with IX.

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FWIW, the apps persistent data can all be overridden and host-volumes used. I do that with almost all my apps personally so I can have data reside elsewhere on the pool that is more to my personal layout tastes.

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The arbitrary bs is done due to constrains and safety:

They are most likely putting the Docker configuration under /mnt/.ix-apps as that guarantees that the pool will be ready/mounted.

Would be nice to be able to set that path. You would think that all the pools are mounted by the time Docker gets started.

Makes me question just running it in a vm lol.
One of the big things is running the portainer agent and being able to directly browse the volumes but we loose that functionality here since the paths are all wack.

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It ended up being my permissions, I think.
I went ahead & created a new dataset for the apps & allow access to @everyone

If anyone has a solution, I’d appreciate feedback.

Yeah its definitely a bit whacky now. I’m mostly likely gonna wait quite awhile since it needs some fine polishing.