From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: storage considerations Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:09:01 -0600 Message-ID: <20090204170901.GB5223@us.ibm.com> References: <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B980989E9@clara.maurer-it.com> <49887307.1080105@free.fr> <20090204160518.GC2039@us.ibm.com> <4989C7C0.6060906@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: <4989C7C0.6060906-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): > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> 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. >> > Interesting, especially the nilfs. > The COW file systems is missing in the linux kernel. Do you think the > btrfs has a chance to go to mainline ? It's in Linus' tree at the moment :) Just needs to stabilize... -serge