Why have IX hidden the ix-apps folder?

Anyone know why IX have hidden the (in my case) /mnt/AppPool/ix-apps dataset and actually mounted it as /mnt/.ix-apps?

root@NewNAS[/mnt/AppPool]# mount | grep ix-apps
AppPool/ix-apps on /mnt/.ix-apps type zfs (rw,noatime,xattr,posixacl,casesensitive)

As a result I cannot snapshot (if I wanted to) - or do anything with that dataset

I cannot even access it as /mnt/AppPool/ix-apps

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This dataset is for internal use only. Create new datasets to serve as your app storage volumes and use the Host Path option when setting up storage for your apps.
See the Host Path bullet point in this article.

Not being able to backup the ix-apps dataset means you can’t backup the app configurations…

So… people are expected to take screenshots of everything?

Similarly, there is no way in the GUI to delete the dataset and recover the space.

Early nightlies showed the dataset, and Dragonfish showed the ix-applications dataset, and IMO showing the dataset is better than not.

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@bella
Your note on “Stable Apps” states that it is hidden.

Not why

I already use hostpath for all apps I have deployed (except for filebrowser)

Not a good idea, at least for the moment :laughing:

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I also noticed that the new dataset is not visible in the UI. How are we supposed to backup the app configurations now? As far as I’ve seen the app configurations are also not saved in the Sqlite database that can be downloaded in the UI.

It was my fault :wink:

https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-130695?focusedCommentId=273040

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There is a way to replicate the dataset