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

[Dave Smith]

Have a look at the sshd template. This is pretty close to a jail ..


On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex.ru> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Tuesday, January 2, 2018 04:48:47
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
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