[Lxc-users] mount from outside of a container online

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 07/18/2011 09:16 PM, Papp Tamas wrote:
> On 2011-07-18 15:14, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> It should be possible, but you have to set it up in advance.  You can
>> create a /lxcshare directory on the host, make sure it is slave
>> (mount --make-rslave /lxcshare) and bind-mount that into the container
>> at startup.  Then mounting a directory into /lxcshare should expose it
>> to the container.
>>
> helo!
>
> Thank you for you answer, Serge:)
>
> I'm not sure I correctly unserstand this part of manual, but I'm sure, 
> this is not exactly I want.
> I wanted (and also want to do it in the future) to mount a directory as 
> 'adhoc', without restarting the container.
>
> Nevermind, thank you,

It is not possible as it is in a separate namespace.
You will have to wait for the mount's setns syscall and the lxc-attach
command for that.