Re: [Lxc-users] disk limit?

2011-05-19 Thread Corin Langosch
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

Re: [Lxc-users] disk limit?

2011-05-19 Thread Corin Langosch
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

Re: [Lxc-users] disk limit?

2011-05-19 Thread Corin Langosch
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

Re: [Lxc-users] disk limit?

2011-05-18 Thread Corin Langosch
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,

[Lxc-users] readonly root

2011-03-09 Thread Corin Langosch
Hi, I basically want to have a single vserver installation and start it several times using different configuration options (mainly for different network settings). Most important, the files should be readonly/ immutable from within the vserver instances. What's the best way to achive this? I