volume: new options [no]copy

add two new options to the volume create command: copy and nocopy.

When nocopy is specified, the files from the container image are not
copied up to the volume.

Closes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14722

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>

docs/source/markdown/podman-create.1.md

@@ -1295,13 +1295,14 @@ The _options_ is a comma-separated list and can be:
 
 * **rw**|**ro**
 * **z**|**Z**
-* [**r**]**shared**|[**r**]**slave**|[**r**]**private**[**r**]**unbindable**
-* [**r**]**bind**
-* [**no**]**exec**
-* [**no**]**dev**
-* [**no**]**suid**
 * [**O**]
 * [**U**]
+* [**no**]**copy**
+* [**no**]**dev**
+* [**no**]**exec**
+* [**no**]**suid**
+* [**r**]**bind**
+* [**r**]**shared**|[**r**]**slave**|[**r**]**private**[**r**]**unbindable**
 
 The `CONTAINER-DIR` must be an absolute path such as `/src/docs`. The volume
 will be mounted into the container at this directory.

docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md

@@ -1362,13 +1362,14 @@ The _options_ is a comma-separated list and can be: <sup>[[1]](#Footnote1)</sup>
 
 * **rw**|**ro**
 * **z**|**Z**
-* [**r**]**shared**|[**r**]**slave**|[**r**]**private**[**r**]**unbindable**
-* [**r**]**bind**
-* [**no**]**exec**
-* [**no**]**dev**
-* [**no**]**suid**
 * [**O**]
 * [**U**]
+* [**no**]**copy**
+* [**no**]**dev**
+* [**no**]**exec**
+* [**no**]**suid**
+* [**r**]**bind**
+* [**r**]**shared**|[**r**]**slave**|[**r**]**private**[**r**]**unbindable**
 
 The `CONTAINER-DIR` must be an absolute path such as `/src/docs`. The volume
 will be mounted into the container at this directory.

docs/source/markdown/podman-volume-create.1.md

@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@ Set metadata for a volume (e.g., --label mykey=value).
 
 Set driver specific options.
 For the default driver, **local**, this allows a volume to be configured to mount a filesystem on the host.
-For the `local` driver the following options are supported: `type`, `device`, and `o`.
+For the `local` driver the following options are supported: `type`, `device`, `o`, and `[no]copy`.
 The `type` option sets the type of the filesystem to be mounted, and is equivalent to the `-t` flag to **mount(8)**.
 The `device` option sets the device to be mounted, and is equivalent to the `device` argument to **mount(8)**.
+The `copy` option enables copying files from the container image path where the mount is created to the newly created volume on the first run.  `copy` is the default.
 
 The `o` option sets options for the mount, and is equivalent to the `-o` flag to **mount(8)** with these exceptions:
 

libpod/container_internal.go

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/cgroups"
 	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/chown"
 	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/config"
+	cutil "github.com/containers/common/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod/define"
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod/events"
 	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/ctime"
@@ -1639,7 +1640,8 @@ func (c *Container) mountNamedVolume(v *ContainerNamedVolume, mountpoint string)
 	if err := vol.update(); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if vol.state.NeedsCopyUp {
+	_, hasNoCopy := vol.config.Options["nocopy"]
+	if vol.state.NeedsCopyUp && !cutil.StringInSlice("nocopy", v.Options) && !hasNoCopy {
 		logrus.Debugf("Copying up contents from container %s to volume %s", c.ID(), vol.Name())
 
 		srcDir, err := securejoin.SecureJoin(mountpoint, v.Dest)

libpod/runtime_volume_linux.go

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ func (r *Runtime) newVolume(options ...VolumeCreateOption) (_ *Volume, deferredE
 						return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "invalid volume option %s for driver 'local'", key)
 					}
 				}
-			case "o", "type", "uid", "gid", "size", "inodes", "noquota":
+			case "o", "type", "uid", "gid", "size", "inodes", "noquota", "copy", "nocopy":
 				// Do nothing, valid keys
 			default:
 				return nil, errors.Wrapf(define.ErrInvalidArg, "invalid mount option %s for driver 'local'", key)

libpod/volume_internal.go

@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ func (v *Volume) needsMount() bool {
 	if _, ok := v.config.Options["NOQUOTA"]; ok {
 		index++
 	}
+	if _, ok := v.config.Options["nocopy"]; ok {
+		index++
+	}
+	if _, ok := v.config.Options["copy"]; ok {
+		index++
+	}
 	// when uid or gid is set there is also the "o" option
 	// set so we have to ignore this one as well
 	if index > 0 {

pkg/util/mountOpts.go

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ type defaultMountOptions struct {
 // The sourcePath variable, if not empty, contains a bind mount source.
 func ProcessOptions(options []string, isTmpfs bool, sourcePath string) ([]string, error) {
 	var (
-		foundWrite, foundSize, foundProp, foundMode, foundExec, foundSuid, foundDev, foundCopyUp, foundBind, foundZ, foundU, foundOverlay, foundIdmap bool
+		foundWrite, foundSize, foundProp, foundMode, foundExec, foundSuid, foundDev, foundCopyUp, foundBind, foundZ, foundU, foundOverlay, foundIdmap, foundCopy bool
 	)
 
 	newOptions := make([]string, 0, len(options))
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ func ProcessOptions(options []string, isTmpfs bool, sourcePath string) ([]string
 		}
 
 		switch splitOpt[0] {
+		case "copy", "nocopy":
+			if foundCopy {
+				return nil, errors.Wrapf(ErrDupeMntOption, "only one of 'nocopy' and 'copy' can be used")
+			}
+			foundCopy = true
 		case "O":
 			foundOverlay = true
 		case "volume-opt":

test/e2e/run_volume_test.go

@@ -452,6 +452,14 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman run with volumes", func() {
 		separateVolumeSession.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
 		Expect(separateVolumeSession).Should(Exit(0))
 		Expect(separateVolumeSession.OutputToString()).To(Equal(baselineOutput))
+
+		copySession := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"run", "--rm", "-v", "testvol3:/etc/apk:copy", ALPINE, "stat", "-c", "%h", "/etc/apk/arch"})
+		copySession.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(copySession).Should(Exit(0))
+
+		noCopySession := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"run", "--rm", "-v", "testvol4:/etc/apk:nocopy", ALPINE, "stat", "-c", "%h", "/etc/apk/arch"})
+		noCopySession.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(noCopySession).Should(Exit(1))
 	})
 
 	It("podman named volume copyup symlink", func() {