On 18.05.2011 20:59, Serge Hallyn wrote:
Certainly not for loopback. Just make sure to create it as having
a big hole in the middle, something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/container1.rootfs.img bs=1M skip=1 count=1
Cool, I didn't know I can use sparse files for that. Good to know,
On 19.05.2011 09:59, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
But how do you set up quotas for the snapshots?
One can limit the size of the whole LVM container, but this is the same as
using a regular disk partition (for all LXC containers).
I'm by no means an lvm expert, but I would have guessed from Hallyn's
On 19.05.2011 11:18, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
But the underlaying partion must be big enouigh to contain all LXC
containers! How do you prevent to a single container to allocate all free
disk space?
I had no time to consult the man pages or to just give it try. Have you
tried it? But I guess
On 18.05.2011 17:52, Serge Hallyn wrote:
Why do you call it not easy? Because you don't have spare partitions to
dedicate to a pv? Or because you're not used to using lvm?
If the former, then you could use a loopback filesystem instead of
an LVM. I assume that'll impact performance, but
