From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: storage considerations Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:05:18 -0600 Message-ID: <20090204160518.GC2039@us.ibm.com> References: <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B980989E9@clara.maurer-it.com> <49887307.1080105@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49887307.1080105-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Linux Containers , Dietmar Maurer List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org): > Dietmar Maurer wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > I think we should have several options for the root storage: > > > > 1.) simply use the host filesystem (like Openvz) > > > > - special quota support is needed (simfs?) > > > > - quota support depends on ext3 fs, so this only works for > > local attached storage (does not work on NFS) > > > > - LVM snapshots are slow, because the snapshot includes all > > container > > on that filesystem. I'm looking forward to the btrfs, tux3, and nilfs snapshotting capabilities. -serge