[lxc-users] fstab vs lxc.mount.entry

[BB]

Thanks for the answer. I was not sure if there is some subtle difference
between alternatives 1) and 2).

Is 1) applied before 2) or vice versa?

Best regards,

BB

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:00:50PM +0100, BB wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any significant difference between the configuration of mounts
> in
> > the container's fstab file versus lxc.mount.entry entries in the
> > container's config file?
> > I am currently using only the former method.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > BB
>
> So there are at least three ways you can handle mounts in a container:
> 1) Use lxc.mount.entry in the container's config
> 2) Use lxc.mount pointing to a file on the host
> 3) Use /etc/fstab inside the container's rootfs
>
> 1) and 2) are essentially identical as any entry in the fstab-like file
> pointed to by lxc.mount is parsed using the same parse as
> lxc.mount.entry.
>
> 3) Is different in that it's the parser in the rootfs which will process
> this and do any required mounts. In this case, your mounts may be
> rejected due to apparmor, selinux, seccomp or user namespaces
> restrictions and also will not allow you to bind-mount resources from
> the host.
>
> --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
>
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