Subject: LVM within Vserver guests
From: Ted Barnes <madogdevelopment@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:09:30 -0500

Hi All:

I'm using Vserver guests, each within its own LVM (Wheezy with Mate, 
LibreOffice, Firefox etc.)  I'm using LVM as a means to manage each 
guest's space.

I've been experimenting with LVM snapshots as a way to restore a guest 
quickly should it became compromised from an attacker.  Initial 
experiments show the restores go quickly, though I have only run a few 
tests (i.e., the snapshots restore more quickly than building a standard 
guest from template).

Q:  has anyone using guests in LVMs put /home in one logical volume and 
rest of the of the guest in another?  Can you use nested LVMs for 
Vserver guests?

My thought here is that you could use snapshots to restore the guest's 
system to a "pristine" state without having to restore /home and its 
data, or have the choice to restore /home vs. the rest of the guests 
from separate snapshots.

Thanks!