[lxc-devel] symbolic link for /var/lib/lxc

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

please consider this:

# ls -al /var/lib/lxc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 11  2014 /var/lib/lxc -> /export/lxc

# lxc-ls --fancy
NAME          STATE    IPV4           IPV6  GROUPS  AUTOSTART
-------------------------------------------------------------
lxchost01     RUNNING  10.123.96.134  -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost02     RUNNING  10.123.99.37   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost03     RUNNING  10.123.96.51   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost04     STOPPED  -              -     auto    NO
lxchost05     RUNNING  10.123.96.46   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost06     RUNNING  10.123.96.55   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost07     RUNNING  10.123.99.219  -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost08     RUNNING  10.123.96.53   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost09     RUNNING  10.123.96.76   -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost10     RUNNING  10.123.99.216  -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost11     RUNNING  10.123.99.125  -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost12     STOPPED  -              -     -       NO

# lxc-ls -P /export/lxc --fancy
NAME          STATE    IPV4  IPV6  GROUPS  AUTOSTART
----------------------------------------------------
lxchost01     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost02     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost03     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost04     STOPPED  -     -     auto    NO
lxchost05     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost06     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost07     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost08     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost09     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost10     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost11     STOPPED  -     -     auto    BY-GROUP
lxchost12     STOPPED  -     -     -       NO


This looks pretty fragile to me. Shouldn't lxc report the same
state for both paths, no matter what?


Regards
Harri