unable to create containers on storage type 'glusterfs'

[jampy]

unable to create containers on storage type 'glusterfs'

Is there any reason why LXC containers can't use Gluster for storage?

 

[dietmar]

unable to create containers on storage type 'glusterfs'

Is there any reason why LXC containers can't use Gluster for storage?

Glusterfs is quite limited regarding snapshot, and there is not kernel driver. We could use the fuse mount, but so far that is not implemented, and
would only give us limited functionality.

 

[jampy]

Is there any way to have file-based LXC containers (ie. no virtual HDD image), like OpenVZ containers worked?

 

[dietmar]

Is there any way to have file-based LXC containers (ie. no virtual HDD image), like OpenVZ containers worked?

Yes. Just use ZFS as storage backend. But that only works for local storage.

 

[jampy]

> Yes. Just use ZFS as storage backend. But that only works for local storage.

Exactly. Not an option for a HA-setup.

Is that only because of the backup functionality (snapshots)? Too bad that wasn't described in the wiki, as this changes quite a lot.

 

[Oliver Treck]

As told here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-4-lxc-chroot-instead-of-raw-images.22881/
It's possible by using the cli tool pct and setting disk-size to zero.
I'm currently trying this out with glusterfs but have no results yet.