Quoting Papp Tamas (tom...@martos.bme.hu): > On 03/13/2012 08:02 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > I'm sorry for the late answer. > > >Hm, perhaps /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate should be updated to not run > >in a container. > > > >It also might be worth removing CAP_SYS_TIME from the container's > >rights. > > Yes, that's true. > > >You mean to run after the container has been created? That'd be a > >nice features, yes. Stéphane has also suggested pre- and > >post-start scripts for container start/stop. > > Yes, exactly. Right now there is a lot of hardcoded option (eg. > ubuntu user, network setup.. etc.) > > >4. I always wanted to ask, why lxc-create command has a switch '-n' if > >it defined in the configuration anyway? > >Hmm? I never put the hostname in my configuration manually. > > lxc configuration contains lxc.utsname = NAME. > Than it's needed to setup the container with lxc-create -n NAME -f config > > >Well, these templates are used by people doing juju, openstack, > >and launchpad/buildd stuff. Yes we've never really discussed how > >we should go about deciding good defaults. We probably should. > > If there is an pre/post script solution, it's getting not so important. > > >>6. How can I deploy it to a custom directory? With the switch '-B' I was > >>not successful. Anyway, many times I just want to create a container > >>with no individual partition (volume). Now I copied it from /var/lib/lxc. > >Not sure what you mean. -B only really supports lvm right now. It should > >be made to support loopback qemu-nbd images. > > > >In the lxc server guide (a rough draft is at > >https://code.launchpad.net/~serge-hallyn/serverguide/serverguide-lxc > >with a rougher but pdf draft at > >http://people.canonical.com/~serge/lxc.serverguide.pdf) > >I strongly recommend against picking custom locations. Rather, if you > >need more space, symlink or bind-mount in another filesystem to > >/var/lib/lxc and /var/cache/lxc. > > Why
Because of the way lxc-create interacts with the templates. It is very hard to make it do the right thing if you specify a custom path, and when it's not right it can harm your host. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
