Quoting Daniel Lezcano (dlezc...@fr.ibm.com): > On 05/13/2011 12:13 AM, Benjamin Kiessling wrote: > >Hi, > > > >under Debian (and in general I think) LVM requires udev to work > >at all which makes it unusable in a container environment. Has > >anybody tried to get it working in a container? > > You can use udev inside a container. It is not optimal because that > trigger events everywhere but it is possible.
What is your host? Which OS/release and which kernel version? > >My setup consists of a logical volume that's mapped in the container > >which the container user should be able to subdivide into partitions > >(i.e. in the end I'd have a chain like pg-vg-lv-pg-vg-lv or LVM on > >an logical volume if that's more clear). Is there another way to > >achieve this kind of setup? I thought about letting users just partition > >the raw logical volume like any other hard disk but this doesn't seem > >to be supported by the kernel. > > Maybe Serge can help you on that. It works fine for me. I've got a natty host with natty guest (itself backed on an lvm partition :). I did apt-get install lvm2, powered down, edit /var/lib/lvmtest/config and deleted all lxc.cgroup.devices lines, started the container back up, and all my lvm partitions appeared under /dev/lxc/. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users