[CRIU] LXC DUMP ERROR

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Thu Oct 2 11:14:06 PDT 2014


I don't see "shared rec" anywhere in the criu source.

is your / shared on your host?  What does 'grep shared /proc/self/mountinfo'
show both in the host and in the container?

Quoting riya khanna (riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com):
> So I face this error if the container's init mounts / as shared
> 
> "mount rootfs rootfs / shared rec"
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho.andersen at canonical.com):
> >> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:47:28PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >> > On 10/02/2014 06:46 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:28:48PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >> > >> On 09/30/2014 08:42 PM, riya khanna wrote:
> >> > >>> What is needed to add support for shared mounts. What could cause
> >> > >>> checkpointing of shared mounts to fail? Even I'm facing the same
> >> > >>> issue. Thanks!
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Tycho, I guess these are shared with smth on host, right? I.e.
> >> > >> the mount points are "external" from CRIU's perspective.
> >> > >
> >> > > I guess so, although I don't know for sure (maybe Serge knows?). Is
> >> > > this something that criu can handle with --ext-mount-map?
> >> >
> >> > If the root of the bind mount is sitting outside of the container's
> >> > root, then yes :) This is what the --ext-mount-map was designed for.
> >>
> >> Ok, cool.
> >>
> >> > > If so, perhaps we could have lxc-checkpoint detect those somehow and tell
> >> > > criu.
> >> >
> >> > Why detect? I thought lxc knows all external bind-mounts it creates.
> >>
> >> Yes, maybe detect is the wrong word. lxc-checkpoint needs to inspect
> >> the config and then tell criu about this.
> >
> > If this is about the /dev/lxc/ttyN, then those are files bind mounted
> > from the host's (or parent container's) /dev/pts/M.  And no, lxc does
> > not keep track of the bind mounts it creates.  However, Tycho and I
> > have discussed the /dev/lxc/ttyN issue and I'm pretty sure he knows what
> > to do.
> >
> > -serge
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