Monthly Archives: May 2013

lxc-snap: lxc container snapshot management tool BACKGROUND Lxc supports containers backed by overlayfs snapshots. The way this is typically done is to create a container backed by a regular directory, then create a new container which mounts the first container’s … Continue reading →

Recently I took some time to work on implementing container clones through the lxc API. lxc-clone previously existed as a shell script which could create snapshot clones of lvm and btrfs containers. There were several shortcomings to this: 1. clone … Continue reading →