On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:59:25PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > If you use tar, make sure to pass --numeric-owner, ESPECIALLY if the > container is RH-derived and the host is Debian-derived (or vice-versa). > > Otherwise things MOSTLY work except you get a few really strange > behaviours, and you eventually track it down and realize that the untar > operation changed UIDs to match the new dom0, e.g. the container sees > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root cups 48112 Feb 18 07:18 > /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper > > instead of > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebug 48112 Feb 18 07:18 > /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper >
Thanks for the reply. Hmmm...I could try this. I was thinking more along the lines of rsync. Since some containers are running production code, I would then rsync over the container to another system, make and test changes on the mirrored container and then rsync back the changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
