[Devel] Re: storage considerations

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano at free.fr):
> 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 ?

It's in Linus' tree at the moment :)  Just needs to stabilize...

-serge
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