[Devel] Re: [Lxc-devel] Linux Containers : next steps

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Sat Jul 29 16:01:10 PDT 2006


Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg at fr.ibm.com):
> * filesystems
> 
> 	- r/o bind mounts
> 
> 	  being worked on by dave. hch will help.
> 
> 	- /proc and /sys isolation/virtualization
> 
> 	  we should be able to mount different /proc in
> 	  containers. hch said he add ideas on the topic and would
> 	  help.  /proc does not need to be complete in the first steps
> 	  and unsupported file could be empty, which is also a way to
> 	  clean up /proc
> 
> 	- shared subtree done
> 
> 	  in 2.6.15
> 
> 	- shared mounts
> 
> 	  patches exist
> 
> 	- union fs
> 
> 	  patches also exist but there is resistance from the
> 	  community

Why do we need unionfs?

Some sort of cow-fs seems far more useful.

-serge




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