[lxc-devel] [PATCH 1/1] snapshots: move snapshot directory

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 08:29:14PM +0000, John Peacock wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 20:25 +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > I was wanting to keep them out of the container itself, but I
> > can't really make a good case for wanting that.  So +1, let's
> > do that - if someone else wants to write the patch before I get to
> > it, shout.
> 
> I think the benefit of having all of the snapshots in one place is
> greatly outweighed by the convenience of having all of the snapshots for
> this container in one place, associated with the container itself.  It
> should also make it easier to completely remove a container AND its
> snapshots.  Having the snapshots someplace else makes it more likely to
> get forgotten unless lxc nags you to delete the snapshots when you
> delete the image.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John

Right, I pretty often move containers from one box to another, so having
everything nicely contained within the container dir makes that very
easy. We finally got rid of the auto-start flags in /etc so also moving
the snapshots to the container dir would make things pretty much perfect
I think.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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