On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 12:19 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 06/11/2013 04:07:27 AM, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm doing some tests on containers having a union rootfs (using Aufs > > in > > Debian) consisting of a writable directory overlaid on top of a > > read-only mount coming from a Squashfs image file. The configuration > > described below seems to work pretty well with lxc 0.9.0.alpha3 and > > Linux 3.8.13-1 (on Debian Sid), at least when the writable directory > > is > > a plain one and not a mountpoint (see below).
> Actually "overlayfs" is the one Linus told Al Viro to include: > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1303.1/02476.html Well... It's about time. We've been crying for an upstream unionfs / union mount, overlayfs for a couple of years now. They've been fiddling around over which one solves which problems and which fits the kernel semantics better. I saw some of the earlier discussions. Everyone has their sacred cows and their axes to grind and nothing is perfect. > Might want to focus on the one that's actually going into the kernel, > unless there's more recent developments I missed? Has this one made it into 3.10? What I'm hearing is that the 3.10 release is going to be a mammoth "cujo" release from the size of the RC's and change sets. I'm going to have to go check that out. :-)=) > Rob > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev Regards, Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | m...@wittsend.com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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