[lxc-devel] API wishlist

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 12 décembre 2012 à 10:43 -0600, Serge Hallyn a écrit :
> Quoting Frederic Crozat (fcrozat at suse.com):
> > Le mercredi 12 décembre 2012 à 09:48 -0600, Serge Hallyn a écrit :
> > > Quoting Frederic Crozat (fcrozat at suse.com):
> > > > Le lundi 10 décembre 2012 à 08:17 -0600, Serge Hallyn a écrit :
> > > > > Quoting Frederic Crozat (fcrozat at suse.com):
> > > > > > I have to agree with that proposal (and making configuration path being
> > > > > > optionally a different path than the one used for rootfs would be a
> > > > > > plus, like the patch Alexey has been posting for a long time and we are
> > > > > > using on SLES).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you post a URL?
> > > > > .
> > > > 
> > > > Even better, here is the patch (adapted from Alexey own version, might
> > > 
> > > Ah, ok, sorry I thought that patch was going to doing something different.
> > > 
> > > > not apply 100% cleanly, it is rebased against 0.8.0, but I can try to
> > > > rebase it against staging if you want). To apply this patch for
> > > > upstream, I'd suggest to not change location of config directory
> > > > to /etc/lxc by default (the patch is doing that ATM) but to continue
> > > > using /var/lib/lxc (but allowing others to use a different path).
> > > 
> > > Currently you can sort of achieve the same thing by using
> > > 
> > > 	lxc-create -B dir --dir some-other-rootfs
> > > 
> > > Is there any way that can suffice for what you want?
> > 
> > It does the reverse of what the patch does :
> > - rootfs is still in /var/lib/lxc
> > - configuration should be moved to /etc/lxc/<container_name>
> > 
> > And lxc-start / lxc-destroy wouldn't search for config data
> > in /etc/lxc..
> 
> I was thinking build lxc with sysconfdir=/etc and then set the rootfs
> to /var/lib/lxc/$container/rootfs...

Oh. Well, it would break for most people, since they are propably build
with sysconfdir=/etc by default (at least, %configure macro on RPM uses
that)

> I'm not a fan of the complication it introduces, but that patch (minus
> the change to /etc by default :) really makes things easier for you I
> don't really want to stand in the way...

That would be a nice Christmas present ;)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
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