Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread pa...@pronskiy.ru
hi! my configuration: openvz + squashfs4.0 + aufs 2.1-standalone.tree-32-20110228 /vz/squashfs/gentoo/ - mounted squashfs gentoo image or other distr /vz/private/123/ - mount squashed gentoo dir and aufs layer from storage dir /vz/storage/123/ /vz/private/124/ - mount squashed gentoo dir and

Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread Rick van Rein
Hello Scott / others, Thanks for responding. I have good news for OpenVZ :-) > /mnt isn't your private directory... it should be /mnt/777/private and of > course you need a root directory too. I will admit that the description in the manual pages about root and private has me confused... is it

Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I have postfix servers running on openvz and in general give it high marks, but there's little point in trying to make it something it's not. If you have the budget, the extra features of virtuozzo are well worth the money. There are good reasons why virtuozzo is more expensive, but if you can only

Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread Kirill Korotaev
As Scott mentioned we have VZFS in commercial version of Parallels Containers. It helps to save a lot of IOPS by sharing files between containers and is fully POSIX compliant. Thanks, Kirill On Jan 5, 2012, at 15:32 , Rick van Rein wrote: > Hello, > > I've just started using OpenVZ, and it fe

Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greeting, - Original Message - > bash# mount -t aufs -o br:/tank/vzdemo=rw:/tank/squeeze=ro none /mnt > bash# grep VE_ /etc/vz/conf/777.conf > VE_PRIVATE=/mnt > bash# vzctl create 777 > Private area already exists in /mnt > Creation of container private area failed /mnt isn't your private

[Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread Rick van Rein
Hello, I've just started using OpenVZ, and it feels more natural than the alternatives I've seen -- my compliments! I can get a host runnig from a ZFS volume like /tank/vzdemo, which then also gets shown at /var/lib/vz/vz-$VEID. But what I really want to do is use a layered FS (like aufs) as the