[Bug 1085057] [NEW] lxc-clone of busybox lxc 440M instead 1.7M

[Rene K. Mueller]

Public bug reported:

I am testing various lxc templates from Ubuntu 12.10, and noticed this:

% lxc-create -t busybox -n bb00
% lxc-clone -o bb00 -n bb01

% du -sh /var/lib/lxc/bb??
1.7M    /var/lib/lxc/bb00
440M    /var/lib/lxc/bb01

The problem is, that you copy /bin from bb00, which is ONE busybox with
281 hardlinks, once cloned to bb01, you copied all hardlinked busybox
now individual files, blowing up from 1.7M to 440M.

I think it relates that you use rsync in lxc-clone, which disregards
hardlinks.

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  lxc-clone of busybox lxc 440M instead 1.7M

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