Hello! You can mount ploop from RO root.hdd images with my tool: https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/ploop_userspace but it's not stable now. You can try it and provide feedback.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > At the university I work, we plan to switch all containers from simfs to > ploop images on the long run. Despite the many advantages of using > ploop, there is one major drawback that keeps us from switching > production already now: We can't mount ploop images from read-only > snapshots. In case of a recovery of a single file, we have to copy the > ploop image from the read-only snapshot to some read-write storage in > order to be able to mount it and extract the file. For CTs with huge > ploop-images this is a big hurdle. > > Wouldn't it be possible to add a some flag to the 'ploop' utility to > allow mounting ploop images from read-only storage (by bypassing some > checks or skipping to set the dirty flag or whatever is necessary)? > > Cheers, > Roman > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
