[Bug 1019398] Re: Allow creation of container root filesystem in a user defined location

[Serge Hallyn]

Thanks for the feature suggestion.  That would indeed be useful.  If I
understand you correctly, the configuration file would still be under
/var/lib/lxc/<container>, but only the rootfs would be moved?

Note that you can currently achieve this in a few ways.

You can use lvm backing stores with volume groups on several different
drives.

You can also create the container as usual,

   lxc-create -t ubuntu -n p1

move the rootfs

   mv /var/lib/lxc/p1/rootfs /mnt/

and then edit /var/lib/lxc/p1/config to set

  lxc.rootfs = /mnt/rootfs

However, adding support for something like '-B dir --dir /mnt/rootfs'
to lxc-create would be doable and avoid the need for hand-editing the
container.

** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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