[lxc-devel] Does lxc support unionfs ?

[Jin Chen]

Another question.

If I start a ubuntu template lxc container tm1 and do "lxc-start-ephemeral
 -o tm1", overlayfs mount will not include those ramfs (e.g. /proc, /sys,
/run) in original container root directory, right ? Actually, I think this
script run outside container tm1 and it even can't see those ramfs
directories in original container.

Thanks
Jin

2012/6/5 Jin Chen <ciccinocj at gmail.com>

> 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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