[lxc-users] lxd documentation about use of ZFS

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, brian mullan!

> Just out of curiousity I took a test system that was setup with ext4
> installed LXD & chose ZFS backing store.

> I showed a failure messge as expected but it also did something to the host
> file system so that it was no longer bootable.

Some more details could be handy.
Which message, which OS/distro...

> Should there be a warning when installing LXD when you get to the point of
> choosing DIR or ZFS backing store that your LXD host system must be on ZFS
> in order to choose ZFS ?

This shouldn't happen to begin with.

> I am only suggesting this so that those new to LXD & perhaps ZFS don't make
> some assumption that LXD somehow can be using ZFS regardless of the host's
> file system.

Yes, it can be.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 03:01:50

Sorry for my terrible english...