Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx): >> >>> 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 ? We've been using NILFS (v1) for 2 years already with Zap, and it works quite well. We had to make slight (trivial) changes to be able to control it nicely for c/r purposes. See our DejaView paper at http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/sosp2007_dejaview.pdf Oren. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
