Re: [lxc-users] Moving files to a guest fs from the host

2019-04-04 Thread Stéphane Graber
That error is pointing to a problem, the directory should be empty when this isn't mounted, if it's got stuff, then that stuff is not actually in the container rootfs. On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 05:30:16PM -0400, Brandon Whaley wrote: > Thank you for taking a look. I was able to rsync and confirm th

Re: [lxc-users] Moving files to a guest fs from the host

2019-04-04 Thread Brandon Whaley
Thank you for taking a look. I was able to rsync and confirm that everything worked as expected if I leave the instance running in privileged mode during the rsync. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the zfs mount option. When I try to mount it via `zfs mount default/containers/instance-0

Re: [lxc-users] Moving files to a guest fs from the host

2019-04-04 Thread Stéphane Graber
LXD only mounts the ZFS datasets when the container is started, so you should: - Set security.privileged to true - Start the container (or alternatively manually "zfs mount" it) - Rsync - Stop or unmount the container - Unset security.privileged - Start it On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:42:38AM

[lxc-users] Network and snapshots copied to another server

2019-04-04 Thread Steven Spencer
All, We have a native LXD server (3.0.0) and I was curious about upgrading to 3.11 via snap. I installed an 18.04 LTS server and then installed lxd via snap (3.11). I copied a few containers over that I could easily stop on the native server. Installing 18.04 LTS server installs a native copy of L

[lxc-users] Moving files to a guest fs from the host

2019-04-04 Thread Brandon Whaley
I'm in the middle of migrating some users from VZ to LXC/LXD with ZFS backed guest fs. I'm using rsync with --numeric-ids to copy the files with the correct uid/gid to the container's private area. It was suggested to me that I could get the uid/gid remapping done by making the destination contai