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

[Ferenc Wagner]

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:
>>   
>>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:
>>>>         
>>>>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>>>             
>>>>>> Actually, I'm not sure you can fully solve this.  If rootfs is a
>>>>>> separate file system, this is only much ado about nothing.  If rootfs
>>>>>> isn't a separate filesystem, you can't automatically find a good
>>>>>> place and also clean it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe a single /tmp/lxc directory may be used as the mount points are
>>>>> private to the container. So it would be acceptable to have a single
>>>>> directory for N containers, no ?
>>>>
>>>> Then why not /usr/lib/lxc/pivotdir or something like that?  Such a
>>>> directory could belong to the lxc package and not clutter up /tmp.  As
>>>> you pointed out, this directory would always be empty in the outer name
>>>> space, so a single one would suffice.  Thus there would be no need
>>>> cleaning it up, either.
>>>
>>> Agree. Shall we consider $(prefix)/var/run/lxc ?
>>
>> Hmm, /var/run/lxc is inconvenient, because it disappears on each reboot
>> if /var/run is on tmpfs.  This isn't variable data either, that's why I
>> recommended /usr above.
>
> Good point. I will change that to /usr/$(libdir)/lxc and let the
> distro maintainer to choose a better place if he wants with the
> configure option.

I'm not sure what libdir is, doesn't this conflict with lxc-init?
That's in the /usr/lib/lxc directory, at least in Debian.  I'd vote for
/usr/lib/lxc/oldroot in this setting.
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Regards,
Feri.