[lxc-users] Mounting the same file system on host and container

Wojciech Arabczyk arabek at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 09:07:48 UTC 2014


Use bind mounts:

lxc.mount.entry=/path/in/host/mount_point
/var/lib/lxc/mycontainer/rootfs/mount_moint none bind 0 0

On 20 September 2014 23:19, MegaBrutal <megabrutal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If I mount the same device/file system on both the host and an LXC container
> (both with "rw" option), will the kernel be aware that the FS is mounted
> twice, or will it damage the file system, like if 2 kernels mounted them at
> once?
>
> It's especially interesting with btrfs file systems, as it's designed to be
> mounted on multiple mount points at once (which is useful when you have
> subvolumes).
>
> My file systems are located on LVs, if that matters, but I think my question
> may be valid for block devices and image files as well.
>
>
> MegaBrutal
>
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