Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-29 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:40 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:17 AM, "Trent W. Buck" > wrote: > > > Upstream cgroup documentation uses /dev/cgroup. I would appreciate a > > udev rules.d file that creates and mounts a cgroup there; I haven't > > gotten around to writing o

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
C Anthony Risinger writes: > On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:17 AM, "Trent W. Buck" > wrote: > >> Upstream cgroup documentation uses /dev/cgroup. I would appreciate a >> udev rules.d file that creates and mounts a cgroup there; I haven't >> gotten around to writing one > > docs lagging; upstream does th

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:17 AM, "Trent W. Buck" wrote: > Upstream cgroup documentation uses /dev/cgroup. I would appreciate a > udev rules.d file that creates and mounts a cgroup there; I haven't > gotten around to writing one docs lagging; upstream does this for us now: /sys/fs/cgroup http://

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
"Brian K. White" writes: > On 11/8/2010 1:14 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 08:40 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >>> Quoting Walter Stanish (walter.stan...@saffrondigital.com): http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c01d62f21b21ba

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-08 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:45 -0500, Brian K. White wrote: > Why in the world would you want to break the ability to safely back up > just /etc and know that you got practically everything needed to > re-create a server without having to back up the entire server full of > redundant junk that wou

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-08 Thread Brian K. White
On 11/8/2010 1:14 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 08:40 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting Walter Stanish (walter.stan...@saffrondigital.com): >>> http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c01d62f21b21ba6c2b8b78ab3c2b37cc8f8fd265 >> >>

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-08 Thread Walter Stanish
Glad to see some further discussion. > Personally, I like and use /srv/lxc for my VMs and don't see any > conflict with the FHS.  It is, after all, a site local configuration > sort of thing that gets set up when you build the images and comprises, > potentially, entire FHS-like sub hierarchies fo

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-08 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 08:40 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Walter Stanish (walter.stan...@saffrondigital.com): > > http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c01d62f21b21ba6c2b8b78ab3c2b37cc8f8fd265 > > This commit only moves the location of the 'templat

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-02 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Walter Stanish (walter.stan...@saffrondigital.com): > > > Therefore I humbly propose: > > >  - the establishment of /var/lib/lxc as the default top-level > > > directory for guest filesystems > > AFAICS we are still using /var/cache/lxc right now. > > Hrrm interesting, I haven't seen that

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-01 Thread Walter Stanish
> > Therefore I humbly propose: > >  - the establishment of /var/lib/lxc as the default top-level > > directory for guest filesystems > AFAICS we are still using /var/cache/lxc right now. Hrrm interesting, I haven't seen that come through on my distribution's packages (gentoo). Quick survey - what

Re: [Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-11-01 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Walter Stanish (walter.stan...@saffrondigital.com): > http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c01d62f21b21ba6c2b8b78ab3c2b37cc8f8fd265 This commit only moves the location of the 'templates', which are just scripts that install a guest fs. It doesn't/sh

[Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-10-30 Thread Walter Stanish
Hi all, I have been playing with LXC on and off for a few months now. It's great. Thanks so much to all developers and the wider user community for making yet another powerful set of functionality available to the free world! :) Now that's out of the way... One higher-level issue I see at pres

[Lxc-users] Proposal for an FHS-compliant default guest filesystem location

2010-10-29 Thread Walter Stanish
Hi all, I have been playing with LXC on and off for a few months now. It's great. Thanks so much to all developers and the wider user community for making yet another powerful set of functionality available to the free world! :) Now that's out of the way... One higher-level issue I see at pres