On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Noah Campbell <noahcampb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With my limited knowledge of lxc, I would recommend looking at a filesystem > that supports snapshots.
yes, in the past i've used btrfs for this (.32 kernel). some will say that it's not suitable for use (and in some situations it may not be), but imo, it's stable enough for my uses; i've had a server running since .32 was released (2 yrs?) hosting several btrfs-based containers without any issue... and btrfs was only considered "ready for early adopters" at that point. using a couple of template subvolumes, i was able to snapshot them into usable domains in < 1 second, and create backups just as fast, while at the same time reusing blocks and saving enormous amounts of disk space. works like a treat :-) i plan on using it extensively very soon for an updated KVM+LXC server using libvirt. C Anthony ps....depending on how... bold... you are, there are LZO compression patches queued for .38: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07748.html and some dedup work is basic but workable: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07819.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07820.html both will be very useful for containerized environments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
