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