Re: [Lxc-users] rootfs backup

2011-01-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
matthew byers faintstlsa...@gmail.com writes: Yea i know btrfs has snapshot abilities but my entire server is ext4. There is a tool to convert an ext filesystem to btrfs IN-PLACE. I do not recommend it, because I do not recommend btrfs at all -- it is not production-ready. (I do use it at

Re: [Lxc-users] rootfs backup

2011-01-07 Thread matthew byers
Yea i know btrfs has snapshot abilities but my entire server is ext4. I could format a extra drive with btrfs. Would that allow me to use btrfs for containers? Are there any other ideas or processes i can try out? On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.mewrote: On

Re: [Lxc-users] rootfs backup

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On 01/07/2011 03:18 AM, matthew byers wrote: Yea i know btrfs has snapshot abilities but my entire server is ext4. I could format a extra drive with btrfs. Would that allow me to use btrfs for containers? Are there any other ideas or processes i can try out? You can create a sparse file,

Re: [Lxc-users] rootfs backup

2011-01-06 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Noah Campbell noahcampb...@gmail.com wrote: With my limited knowledge of lxc, I would recommend looking at a filesystem that supports snapshots. yes, in the past i've used btrfs for this (.32 kernel). some will say that it's not suitable for use (and in some