[Devel] lxc userspace tools 0.3.0 released

[Dmitry Mishin]

On Thursday 16 October 2008 13:06:45 Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Dmitry Mishin wrote:
> > Hi, Daniel!
>
> Hi Dmitry ! good to see you again :)
Thank you ! :)

>
> > I studied a bit lxc tools and have a couple of questions. Could you
> > answer them?
>
> Of course I can :)
>
> > 1)  Why did you chose such way of a container's configuration storing?
> > IMHO, configuration in one file is better, because this file will be
> > small and could be easily mmap'ed for the following operations instead of
> > multiple readdir() and filesystem lookups.
>
> I wanted to have the configuration easily hackable, so you can edit
> directly the files inside the directory. For example, if you remove the
> network directory, when you will start the container, the network will
> not be unshared. If you have a single file, that will be more difficult
> to edit especially if it is a binary file.
>
> The container tree contains more than the configuration file, for
> example, it contains some runtime information.
>
> It is true having a mmapped configuration is more efficient but it is
> just for container startup, and there are not thousand of files. The
> application running inside the container is not impacted.
OK, but what if I need some namespace to be shared between containers?
How it will be handled? For example, CT 1 and CT 2 need to share network 
namespace, but keep it separated from host one.
 
>
> > 2) why did you chose cvs as VCS? Git is more common and convenient for
> > distributed development...
>
> The lxc userspace tool is a low level component I wrote to play with the
> container, and especially to facilitate the kernek hacking. The lxc
> kernel website is at lxc.sourceforge.net, so logically I put this
> component at the same place. Unfortunately the sourceforge website does
> not provide the services for git tree, only CVS/SVN. But I agree 100%
> with you, I would have definitively preferred to use git.
Worth to create it at git.openvz.org?

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Thanks,
Dmitry.