On 02/01/2014 04:01 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> Since a few years now mainline is working on getting LXC
> into a decent shape, and some parts are already useable,
> but unfortunately there is still a lot of improvement
> necessary.
Can some of the LXC components in the kernel be used in place of the
relevant VServer components to make the patch smaller and easier to
maintain? Or if the VServer component is "better" (I use the term
loosely because what kernel maintainers deem "better" isn't necessarily
what other people deem "better"), trying to push a patch to do that
upstream?
> 3.11 changed a number of things which affected Linux-VServer
> and the changes in 3.12 and 3.13 didn't make porting the
> patch easier, so once again, mainline was a moving target
> and it took some time and thinking to get a working patch
> done.
I'm not sure about the general use case, but the impression I get from
listening on the list is that most people tend to use LTS kernels
because that is what the distro kernels tend to be based on. Would it
perhaps be more reasonable to focus on maintaining the patch only for
LTS kernels? They are still moving targets, but at least they would be
fewer moving targets.
Thank you for VServer. I still firmly believe that it is the "best" of
the 3 available chroot virtualization solutions for Linux, especially
due to it's hashify feature.
Gordan
Received on Sat Feb 1 09:26:29 2014