[Devel] Re: storage considerations
Serge E. Hallyn
serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 4 09:09:01 PST 2009
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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