BTW - the reason I am looking at mounting directories under the rootfs of the containers is that I have a large slow storage array for big data and a much smaller fast NVME PCI device for fast data processing and I want to use them both in the same container.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:04 PM, B G <bg85...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Serge. > > You suggest to bind mount the underlying directory from the host OS? > > I suppose that we could do that for the root file system anywhere inside > the image file system? > > E.g. > > /var/lib/lxd/containers/container-name/rootfs/directory_mount > > Once I restart the container should be transparent to the container that > the underlying file-system has mounted from a different location? > > That sound right... I was thinking about it in a much more complicated way > like you would a VDI for a VM. That is better. > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > >> Quoting B G (bg85...@gmail.com): >> > I need to jam a ton of data from another drive partition into a >> > container... What is the best way to: >> > >> > 1. Mount a directory from a different drive on the host >> > >> > or >> > >> > 2. Change the image location to the alternative drive on the host >> > >> > I have been searching a ton and can't see the best way to do this. I >> have >> > an NVME partition that I want to use for really fast IO but it is not >> the >> > default one the containers are created in... >> > >> > Appreciate any advice.. >> >> Are you using lxd or lxc? >> >> The easiest way is probably to just bind mount the fast directory onto >> /var/lib/lxc or /var/lib/lxd. If I'm understanding you right. >> >> Personally on my laptop I have a little 16G m.2 ssd formatted as btrfs >> and mounted onto /var/lib/lxd to give me something like .5-second >> container >> creations. >> >> -serge >> _______________________________________________ >> lxc-users mailing list >> lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org >> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > >
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