From: Serge Hallyn Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 16:33:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: lxc-create: make 'none' bdev type work again X-Git-Tag: lxc-1.1.0.alpha1~128 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50040b5;p=thirdparty%2Flxc.git lxc-create: make 'none' bdev type work again This should address https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/199 Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Stéphane Graber --- diff --git a/doc/lxc-create.sgml.in b/doc/lxc-create.sgml.in index 2cb6bb5fa..97354609e 100644 --- a/doc/lxc-create.sgml.in +++ b/doc/lxc-create.sgml.in @@ -126,13 +126,14 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA - 'backingstore' is one of 'none', 'dir', 'lvm', 'loop', 'btrfs', or 'best'. The - default is 'none', meaning that the container root filesystem + 'backingstore' is one of 'dir', 'lvm', 'loop', 'btrfs', or 'best'. The + default is 'dir', meaning that the container root filesystem will be a directory under @LXCPATH@/container/rootfs. - 'dir' has the same meaning as 'none', but also allows the optional + This backing store type allows the optional --dir ROOTFS to be specified, meaning that the container rootfs should be placed under the specified path, - rather than the default. If 'btrfs' is specified, then the + rather than the default. (The 'none' backingstore type is an alias for + 'dir'.) If 'btrfs' is specified, then the target filesystem must be btrfs, and the container rootfs will be created as a new subvolume. This allows snapshotted clones to be created, but also causes rsync --one-filesystem to treat it as a diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_create.c b/src/lxc/lxc_create.c index 6b595f986..caca056ef 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_create.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_create.c @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) if (!validate_bdev_args(&my_args)) exit(1); + if (strcmp(my_args.bdevtype, "none") == 0) + my_args.bdevtype = "dir"; + if (geteuid()) { if (mkdir_p(my_args.lxcpath[0], 0755)) { exit(1);