Subject: Re: [vserver] Copy-on-write Hard Links, Shared Libraries, Prelink and Memory
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:15:39 +0100

On 06/10/2010 01:53 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 06:08:27PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:01:12PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> Can you cut&   paste the exact rm command you use?
>
>>> He did. The find command execs 'rm -f' on all the files it finds that
>>> have a hard link count of 1. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
>
>> Oh, so
>> find /var/lib/vservers/.hash -type f -links 1 -exec rm -v '{}' ';'
>
>> does it for Debian, then. I thought I was missing something.
>> Below did strike as a bit much space for 253 barebone guests.
>
>> beryllium:~# df -k
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1             73742752  42989868  27006932  62% /
>
> this shows me that you do not favor a good design, as
> putting _everything_ on one partition (including the
> guests, which might need/want filesystem tagging sooner
> or later) ...

Can you please explain exactly what you mean here? What potential issues 
do you see from guest and host files being on the same file system?

Gordan