On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:29:55PM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
DL> So, if I understand correctly, the user would specify a directory DL> containing an image of the entire file system they want for the DL> container. This would be clone'd and setup so that it appears as DL> / in the container filesystem?
No, they would just be directories that could be used for overlays (like in the case of sharing / with the parent, but overlaying a different /var).
I think what Dan is suggesting is a way to automatically populate a new var overlay when the user creates an "image" of the type "directory" through libvirt. They would say "create me a new var, based on this other existing var over here".
BTW, I'd like to not have to implement this :-) It is just the conceptual model that would fit it with the storage API design... Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|