[Lxc-users] lxc-clone

[Ramez Hanna]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Serge Hallyn
<serge.hallyn at canonical.com> wrote:
> Quoting Ramez Hanna (rhanna at informatiq.org):
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have started using lxc to setup a pre-production system instead of KVM
>> at first glance clone seemd to me that it would copy everything to a new roots
>> but turns out that in case of LVM it will snapshot
>> AFAIK snapshots are meant more for backup or testing some changes and
>> discarding them later
>> do you think it makes sense if I modify the script in this way
>> if user doesn't specify -s, then a new lv is created and copy all
>> comtents to it, rather than snapshot which would work if user uses the
>> -s option?
>
> Yes, I guess I didn't implement that bit yet, but not specifying -s was
> meant to do a simple copy.  You'll probably want to check whether the
> original was a simple directory tree or an lvm, and only lvcreate if the
> original was an lvm.  (then lxc-convert can offer conversion from one to
> the other.)
>
> -serge
>

I did implemet that
patch submitted yesterday, would appreciate any comments