[Libvir] PATCH: 0/16: Storage management APIs

Dave Leskovec dlesko at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Feb 12 21:27:11 UTC 2008


Dan Smith wrote:
> DB> Which would result in $pool-target-dir/$vol-name. This works fine
> DB> if you only need to be able to create the top level directory for
> DB> the container filesystem.
>
> Seems reasonable to me.
>
> DB> I really rather want to avoid turning libvirt into a general file
> DB> management API.
>
> Agreed.
>
> DB> Perhaps simply the ability to 'clone' an existing directory
> DB> (populated from source external soure, or off NFS) would be
> DB> sufficient for populating containers ?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.  :)
>   

So, if I understand correctly, the user would specify a directory 
containing an image of the entire file system they want for the 
container.  This would be clone'd and setup so that it appears as / in 
the container filesystem?

> Maybe Dave L. can chime in here with any thoughts he may have?
>
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Dave Leskovec
IBM Linux Technology Center
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