[Lxc-users] lxc-destroy erase rootfs

[Antoine Gaillard]

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Le 09/02/2013 00:41, Serge Hallyn a écrit :
> Quoting Papp Tamas (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
>> On 02/08/2013 02:46 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Please do it in reverse way (aka [-r|--remove]). It would be
>> much-much more 'polite' (IMHO:D).
> 
> Not to users who are already scripting around lxc-destroy and
> would now have to change all the callers.
> 
> Seriously, 'lxc-destroy' is a vicious enough sounding name, and I 
> don't like they idea of saying "well other suites use their terms 
> differently so we have to follow suit."
> 
>> Or just suggest a way to modify containers configuration.
> 
> Sorry, can you elaborate?  You can modify configuration using the 
> API (in C, python, or, iiuc, lua).  You can edit the configuration 
> file by hand...  If there is more you'd like, please do propose
> it, sounds interesting.
> 
> -serge
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IMHO since lxc-create creates rootfs lxc-destroy should remove it
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