oc-mirror v2 fails with context deadline exceeded when mirroring large images to a local registry in RHOCP 4
Issue
When using the oc-mirror plugin v2 to mirror OpenShift images, the process may fail for certain large images with errors similar to:
error mirroring image docker://registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/instructlab-nvidia-rhel9@sha256:... error: copying image 1/2 from manifest list: writing blob: Patch "http://localhost:55000/v2/<image>/blobs/uploads/<UUID>?_state=...": context deadline exceeded
error mirroring image docker://registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-operator-bundle@sha256:aa94b4b3c494eb103665a289008c718467206ef9614f2ef3c872bb106771eb3b error: skipping operator bundle docker://registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-operator-bundle@sha256:aa94b4b3c494eb103665a289008c718467206ef9614f2ef3c872bb106771eb3b because one of its related images failed to mirror
Environment
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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x
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oc-mirrorplugin v2 -
Local container registry (docker-distribution or Quay)
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Large images with multi-GB layers (e.g., CUDA notebooks, NVIDIA base images, RHODS/RHOAI operators)
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