[lxc-users] Using a mounted drive to handle storage pool

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Lai Wei-Hwa <whlai at robco.com> wrote:

> I've currently migrated LXD from canonical PPA to Snap.
>
> I have 2 RAIDS:
>
>    - /dev/sda - ext4 (this is root device)
>    - /dev/sdb - brtfs (where I want my pool to be with the containers and
>    snapshots)
>
> How/where should I mount my btrfs device? What's the best practice in
> having the pool be in a non-root device?
>
>

You can simply use 'lxc storage create' to create a new storage pool (needs
newer lxd version, not 2.0.x):
https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/storage.md#btrfs



> There are a few approaches I can see
>
>    1. mount /dev/sdb to /var/snap/lxd (or /var/lib/lxd - if you're using
>    PPA) ... then: lxd init
>
>
snap complicates that. I'm not sure which directories are available for
snap. It MIGHT work if you specify the block device directly and let lxd
choose the best mount point.


> Also, I'd love it if LXD could make this a little easier and let users
> more easily define where the storage pool will be located.
>
>

That's what 'lxd storage create' does.

-- 
Fajar
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