[lxc-devel] Does lxc support unionfs ?

[Jin Chen]

Thank you, Stéphane. It seems that I need to talk with my lab members about
which cow fs is more proper.

Wishes,
Jin

2012/6/5 Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>

> On 06/05/2012 04:01 PM, Jin Chen wrote:
> > Currently, I am trying to implement full container clone (with all
> > processes running in container). For performance, copy-on-write
> > filesystem will be a good choice. Does lxc container support fs like
> > unionfs-fuse? Any reply will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Jin
>
> I don't think we explicitly tried unionfs, but both overlayfs and aufs
> work fine. Look at lxc-start-ephemeral in Ubuntu for a tool that already
> does that.
>
> Essentially you can do: lxc-start-ephemeral -o <base container>
> which will spawn a new clone of "<base container>" with all changes
> stored on tmpfs using overlayfs/aufs.
>
> --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
>
>


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