[Lxc-users] lxc-start leaves temporary pivot dir behind

[Ferenc Wagner]

"Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> writes:

> On 5/10/2010 10:48 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>
>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>    
>>> So why not require that rootfs is a separate filesystem, and let the
>>> user deal with it by doing the necessary bind mount in the lxc
>>> config?
>>      
>> Hmm, that will break the actual user configurations.
>>
>> We can add a WARNING if rootfs is not a separate file system and provide
>> the ability to let the user to do whatever he wants, IMO if it is well
>> documented it is not a problem.
>
> Just putting in a hopefully unnecessary vote, if you are still deciding 
> what's ultimately going to be possible or impossible:
> As a user, I can say I really want to continue using a shared filesystem 
> where the containrs roots are subdirectories on a single host filesystem.

Don't worry, nobody considered making this impossible (which would be
impossible anyway :).  Even breaking user configurations is undesirable,
we're just exploring the design space.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.