[Lxc-users] lxc-destroy erase rootfs

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting John (lxc at jelmail.com):
> I raised this issue back on 6th/7th December. It was a side-issue in
> a discussion entitled "unable to run systemd in an LXC container". I
> have always performed a destroy/create cycle to apply changes
> written to /etc/lxc/mycontainer.conf. I was asked why I didn't edit
> in /var directly and I replied that I treated the files created by
> LXC in /var to be internal and have always used the destroy/create
> cycle for config updates. There was talk of adding a -k (keep)
> option to lxc-destroy.
> 
> I have been working on other commitments and need to come back and
> revisit this but it's good to see others have experienced the same
> difficulty when this change in behaviour.
> 
> I would be interested in current thoughts.

First, note that if you're doing lxc-destroy thinking it is
'virsh destroy', then that means the container is running right?
And lxc-destroy will then print a warning and do nothing.

I'm happy to ack a patch to add [-k|--keep] to lxc-destroy.

-serge