[lxc-users] Share base OS with multiple containers like FreeBSD jails

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Rajil Saraswat!

> I have been used FreeBSD jails for some time and love the fact that the
> same base image is shared with multiple jails. I was wondering if it is
> possible to do the same with lxc/lxd (running on Gentoo). At the moment
> lxd leads to lot of wasted space when using multiple containers since
> each image requires a full blown base image.

This is a question of an underlying storage backend.
ZFS/BTRFS can save quite a lot of space, so do LVM.

LESS=+/backingstore man lxc-create


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 04:48:47

Sorry for my terrible english...