On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Mike McCracken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, the storage.lvm_vg_name is not a per-container config setting, > it's for the whole daemon. > > You set it using 'lxc config set storage.lvm_vg_name myvolgroup', and > then lxd will use the volume group as storage for every new image and > container that you create afterwards.
Mike, Many thanks -- I'll have a play with this later. Austin > On 10/9/15, Austin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I see from https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/specs/storage-backends.md >> that LVM can be used as a backingstore with LXD. >> >> I've previously managed to get LVM working with LXC. This was very >> pleasing, since it allows me to control disk consumption. However I >> can't work out how to achieve this with LXD. >> >> From what I understand, storage.lvm_vg_name must point to my volume >> group. I've set this for a container by creating a profile, and >> applying that profile to the container. The entire profile config >> looks like this: >> >> name: my-profile-name >> config: >> raw.lxc: | >> storage.lvm_vg_name = lxc-volume-group >> lxc.start.auto = 1 >> lxc.arch = amd64 >> lxc.network.type = veth >> lxc.network.link = lxcbr0 >> lxc.network.flags = up >> lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx >> lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 1 >> lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 76895572 >> security.privileged: "false" >> devices: {} >> >> The volume group should be available and working, according to >> pvdisplay on the host box: >> >> --- Physical volume --- >> PV Name /dev/sdc5 >> VG Name lxc-volume-group >> PV Size 21.87 GiB / not usable 3.97 MiB >> Allocatable yes >> PE Size 4.00 MiB >> Total PE 5599 >> Free PE 901 >> Allocated PE 4698 >> PV UUID what-ever >> >> However after applying the profile and starting the container, it >> appears to be using file backing store: >> >> me@my-box:~# ls /var/lib/lxd/containers/migratee/rootfs/ >> bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt >> proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Many thanks! _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
