[lxc-users] lxd and btrfs?

Stéphane Graber stgraber at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 29 17:29:27 UTC 2016


On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:11:03AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> "sudo lxd init" says
>   Name of the storage backend to use (dir or zfs):
> 
> What does one answer if one wants to use btrfs?
> 
> https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/15/lxd-2-0-installing-and-configuring-lxd-212/
> doesn't quite help; it implies that lxd will just do the right thing
> if btrfs is installed.
> 
> Does that mean 'dir' is the right thing to answer at lxd init's question?
> 
> This kind of goes along with https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1547
> which is about making that point in the user experience clearer.

Yes, if you answer "dir" and /var/lib/lxd is on btrfs, btrfs will be used.

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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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