From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: storage considerations Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:52:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4989C7C0.6060906@free.fr> References: <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B980989E9@clara.maurer-it.com> <49887307.1080105@free.fr> <20090204160518.GC2039@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090204160518.GC2039-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@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: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Linux Containers , Dietmar Maurer List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.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 ?