[Lxc-users] limiting RAM usage and disk space usage

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > > It seems to me that a little extension to lxc-create which creates
> > > the container inside a loopback fs would be pretty neat.
> > 
> > Wouldn't simply adding the rootfs to the fstab conf with the file system
> > image and the "-o loop" option do it?  I would think it would.  I
> > haven't tried it in lxc but I do it all the time just for general
> > mounting and day to day work.
> 
> So this is an excerpt from one of my LXC VM's fstab (I normally use an
> explicit bind mount for them):
> 
> /srv/lxc/private/1004 /srv/lxc/rootfs    none bind 0 0
> 
> Now...  Wouldn't this work as well?  Untested:
> 
> /srv/lxc/private/disk.image /srv/lxc/rootfs    none loop 0 0
> 
> Seems to me that if the bind option works the loop option should as
> well.

Right, for using the container.  lxc-create would presumably need a
loving touch to make it mount that before doing debootstrap
or whatever

-serge