Quoting Papp Tamas (tom...@martos.bme.hu): > On 03/05/2013 02:46 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > > >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. > > > > I reopened this project in my queue. > > And I'm wondering, whether you're planning to convert these shell > scripts to python. If so, I'm not sure, it's worth to hack them > now...
I'm working right now on clone in the c api. The basics were simple enough, now to tackle the blockdev copy/snapshotting... -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
