[Lxc-users] zfs support

[Papp Tamas]

On 03/05/2013 02:46 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>
> Quoting Scott Moser (smoser at ubuntu.com):
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Papp Tamas wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/05/2013 05:27 AM, Scott Moser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I wrote the btrfs clone stuff, I just cloned the rootfs directory as it
>>>> was the only thing I thought would be of any significant size.  The other
>>>> things I think just get copied).
>>>>
>>>> Its probably me thats missing something obvious, but whats the benefit to
>>>> having all of $lxc_path/$lxc_name ?
>>>
>>> They belong to each other.
>>> If a user wants to backup a container, everything have to be saved and the
>>> same is true, if the container has to be relocated.
>>> If it's cloned as a template, maybe the config and fstab files are useless,
>>> but I guess it's OK, if they are there, they can be removed or even used as
>>> template config.
>>
>> Nah, it sounds reasonable.  I hadn't thought about backing up, or
>> persistent snapshots, that does make sense.  I can't think of anything
>> that would hurt from the additional handful of small text files.
>>
>> My driving purpose was only fast cloning.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> So the only trick will be we'll need some code (at least in lxc-clone)
> to make sure that we detect older sites where only the rootfs is on the
> subvolume, and do the right thing.
>

I reopened this project in my queue.

And I'm wondering, whether you're planning to convert these shell scripts to python. If so, I'm not 
sure, it's worth to hack them now...

Thanks,
tamas