I have written a script lxc which is a superset of some of the lxc-*
programs and adds some extra features. Maybe it is useful for others:
http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/download/lxc
root@vms2:~# lxc -h
usage: lxc option
options: -l list containers
-p list all container processes
On 18.05.2011 20:59, Serge Hallyn wrote:
Certainly not for loopback. Just make sure to create it as having
a big hole in the middle, something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/container1.rootfs.img bs=1M skip=1 count=1
Cool, I didn't know I can use sparse files for that. Good to know,
On Wed, 18 May 2011, Serge Hallyn wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/container1.rootfs.img bs=1M skip=1 count=1
That ought to be seek=1, not skip. (you skip the input, seek the
outout)
I'm not a fan of this though - if you create the image file(s) using dd
there is a good chance it's
On 19.05.2011 09:59, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
But how do you set up quotas for the snapshots?
One can limit the size of the whole LVM container, but this is the same as
using a regular disk partition (for all LXC containers).
I'm by no means an lvm expert, but I would have guessed from Hallyn's
On Thu 2011-05-19 (10:35), Corin Langosch wrote:
But how do you set up quotas for the snapshots?
One can limit the size of the whole LVM container, but this is the same as
using a regular disk partition (for all LXC containers).
I'm by no means an lvm expert, but I would have guessed
On 19.05.2011 11:18, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
But the underlaying partion must be big enouigh to contain all LXC
containers! How do you prevent to a single container to allocate all free
disk space?
I had no time to consult the man pages or to just give it try. Have you
tried it? But I guess
I've used ZFS on Fuse before, with OpenVZ. The performance was horrible, but
the flexibility outweighs the cons for small setups. No space was lost, thanks
to volume management as well as deduplication support.
For serious setups, I'd recommend exporting ZFS over NFS from a Nexenta host
(or
Quoting Corin Langosch (cor...@gmx.de):
On 19.05.2011 11:18, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
After some time users install data on their vservers and so the
snapshots grow over time.
disc: 500 GB (one big lvm partition)
lvm volume: 10 GB (has vserver base system installation)
snapshot 1: 5 GB (a
and what about using xfs quota by project? is somebody tried?
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Serge Hallyn
serge.hal...@canonical.com wrote:
Quoting Corin Langosch (cor...@gmx.de):
On 19.05.2011 11:18, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
After some time users install data on their vservers and so the
