Quoting Scott Moser (smo...@ubuntu.com): > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Papp Tamas wrote: > > > On 03/05/2013 05:27 AM, Scott Moser wrote: > > > > > > I wrote the btrfs clone stuff, I just cloned the rootfs directory as it > > > was the only thing I thought would be of any significant size. The other > > > things I think just get copied). > > > > > > Its probably me thats missing something obvious, but whats the benefit to > > > having all of $lxc_path/$lxc_name ? > > > > They belong to each other. > > If a user wants to backup a container, everything have to be saved and the > > same is true, if the container has to be relocated. > > If it's cloned as a template, maybe the config and fstab files are useless, > > but I guess it's OK, if they are there, they can be removed or even used as > > template config. > > Nah, it sounds reasonable. I hadn't thought about backing up, or > persistent snapshots, that does make sense. I can't think of anything > that would hurt from the additional handful of small text files. > > My driving purpose was only fast cloning.
Thanks guys. So the only trick will be we'll need some code (at least in lxc-clone) to make sure that we detect older sites where only the rootfs is on the subvolume, and do the right thing. thanks, -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
