[lxc-users] my actual use and future with lxd (and python)

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 29 13:19:19 UTC 2015


Quoting david.andel at bli.uzh.ch (david.andel at bli.uzh.ch):
>  Hi Tycho
> 
> >> 2. LXD will work with btrfs subvolumes per environment?
> 
> > Eventually, although it currently does not. You can set it up by hand
> > if you like, though.

Stéphane actually pushed a patch yesterday to start supporting this.

> Well, if I want to use the lxc-clone / lxc-snapshot functionality on btrfs snapshots I guess I have to lxc launch an image first, manually copy it into a btrfs subvolume and then use the lxc-... commands.
> Is that correct or can I also keep using the lxc command in this scenario?

lxc-clone and lxc-snapshot do not work with lxd.  You'd use
'lxc move', 'lxc copy', and 'lxc snapshot'.


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