[Users] openvz and SuSE

[Daniel Bauer]

From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir at openvz.org>
> Daniel Bauer wrote:
>>>> Why is the stuff double in private and root, I thougt that the root 
>>>> is only the mounted stuff from private?
>>>
>>>
>>> It is not doubled. You can think of it as a bind mount (although 
>>> it's a bit more than that).
>>> Private is a source for mount (i.e. what we mount), while root is a 
>>> mountpoint (i.e. where we mount it).
>>
>> ok, that is what I understood, but when I stop the VPS, the root is 
>> still full of content, shouldn't it be unmounted?
>
> vzctl stop does unmounting of the root area. If you stop VPS from 
> within a VPS itself, the mount is still there -- and you can umount 
> manually (vzctl umount NNN).

ok, now I see ;)


> Creating a cron job for that is problematic - you can not distinguish 
> a case there you stopped VPS from inside so it needs to be unmounted 
> from the case there you just mounted a VPS (say, to do some 
> maintenance). So it is left as is, since there is no problem to left 
> it mounted - it does not consume much resources etc.

is it better to stop a machine inside by "poweroff" or using vzctl stop?

Daniel