[Devel] Re: storage considerations

[Daniel Lezcano]

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano at free.fr):
>   
>> Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> I think we should have several options for the root storage:
>>>
>>> 1.) simply use the host filesystem (like Openvz)
>>>
>>> 	- special quota support is needed (simfs?)
>>>
>>> 	- quota support depends on ext3 fs, so this only works for
>>> 	  local attached storage (does not work on NFS)
>>>
>>> 	- LVM snapshots are slow, because the snapshot includes all
>>> container
>>> 	  on that filesystem.
>>>       
>
> I'm looking forward to the btrfs, tux3, and nilfs snapshotting
> capabilities.
>   
Interesting, especially the nilfs.
The COW file systems is missing in the linux kernel. Do you think the 
btrfs has a chance to go to mainline ?
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