As Scott mentioned we have VZFS in commercial version of Parallels Containers. It helps to save a lot of IOPS by sharing files between containers and is fully POSIX compliant.
Thanks, Kirill On Jan 5, 2012, at 15:32 , Rick van Rein wrote: > Hello, > > I've just started using OpenVZ, and it feels more natural than the > alternatives I've seen -- my compliments! > > I can get a host runnig from a ZFS volume like /tank/vzdemo, which then > also gets shown at /var/lib/vz/vz-$VEID. But what I really want to > do is use a layered FS (like aufs) as the private directory for the > container. But trying to do that leads to an error: > > bash# mount -t aufs -o br:/tank/vzdemo=rw:/tank/squeeze=ro none /mnt > bash# grep VE_ /etc/vz/conf/777.conf > VE_PRIVATE=/mnt > bash# vzctl create 777 > Private area already exists in /mnt > Creation of container private area failed > > What is this trying to say? Is there a way to do what I am trying > to do? Did I understand well that the private area is a directory, > not a device? > > > Thanks, > -Rick > > > P.S. To capture any "why" questions :- I am trying to share as many > resources as possible. Containers beat Xen/KVM/VMware in that > respect, and when I can share the base OS and only have a thin > layer on top, it should mean that even the buffer cache is > shared between containers. It also means that upgrades can be > reduced to a minimum of repetition. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
