Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-12-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Andy Billington a...@andybillington.com writes: Btrfs-tools says 0.19 as that's what came in from the apt-get. Maybe newer btrfs versions may work better, but until they qualify for an apt-get in Ubuntu LTS, they aren't options. btrfs-tools version is largely irrelevant, it's a tiny C wrapper

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-12-14 Thread John Drescher
btrfs isn't stable.  When it is, you'll need that kernel (e.g. 2.6.38), not just a new btrfs-tools userland.  So basically for production you should just be waiting until 12.04 LTS. I would expect it to be 2.6.42 to 2.6.46. Since 2.6.38 is just 3 months away. John

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-12-14 Thread John Drescher
Sorry, I pulled .38 out of my arse; I didn't mean to imply it was a meaningful number. I would be happy if it becomes stable by your other guess. I mean ubuntu 12-04. We shall see. John -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now

[Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread Gordon Henderson
Looking to put hard limits on a containers filesystem size by creating a fixed-length file, putting a filesystem in it, loopback mounting it, then using that as the containers root ... I've not tried it yet, but wondering if anyone has done anything like this? Any pitfalls? (Other than maybe

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On 09/30/2010 11:04 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: Looking to put hard limits on a containers filesystem size by creating a fixed-length file, putting a filesystem in it, loopback mounting it, then using that as the containers root ... I've not tried it yet, but wondering if anyone has done

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Daniel Lezcano wrote: On 09/30/2010 11:04 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: Looking to put hard limits on a containers filesystem size by creating a fixed-length file, putting a filesystem in it, loopback mounting it, then using that as the containers root ... I've not

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Gordon Henderson gor...@drogon.net wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Daniel Lezcano wrote: On 09/30/2010 11:04 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: Looking to put hard limits on a containers filesystem size by creating a fixed-length file, putting a filesystem in it,

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezc...@free.fr wrote: On 09/30/2010 09:50 PM, Andy Billington wrote: On 30/09/2010 20:21, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Gordon Hendersongor...@drogon.net   wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Daniel Lezcano

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread Andy Billington
On 30/09/2010 22:10, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Lezcanodaniel.lezc...@free.fr wrote: On 09/30/2010 09:50 PM, Andy Billington wrote: On 30/09/2010 20:21, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Gordon

Re: [Lxc-users] Container Filesystem in a file (loopback mount)

2010-09-30 Thread Andy Billington
On 30/09/2010 22:26, John Drescher wrote: I am interested in using btrfs for my containers but I am thinking its too experimental to use in a work production environment. Btrfs-tools says 0.19 as that's what came in from the apt-get. Maybe newer btrfs versions may work better, but until