Tag: zfs

How to view the files of your LXD container from the host

You are creating LXD containers and you enter a container (lxc shell, lxc exec or lxc console) in order to view or modify the files of that container. But can you access the filesystem of the container from the host? If you use the LXD snap package, LXD mounts the filesystem of the container in …

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Reconnecting your LXD installation to the ZFS storage pool

You are using LXD and you are creating many containers. Those containers are stored in a dedicated ZFS pool, and LXD is managing this ZFS pool exclusively. But disaster strucks, and LXD loses its database and forgets about your containers. Your data is there in the ZFS pool, but LXD has forgotten them because its …

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Benchmarking LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net

This is the fourth post in the series. A closer look at AMD EPYC baremetal servers at packet.net Booting up the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net Configuring LXD on the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net Benchmarking LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net (this post) There is a tool for benchmarking LXD, …

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Configuring LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net

This is the third post in the series. A closer look at AMD EPYC baremetal servers at packet.net Booting up the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net Configuring LXD on the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net (this post) Benchmarking LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net We have booted the AMD EPYC server …

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A closer look at the new ARM64 Scaleway servers and LXD

Update #1: I posted at the Scaleway Linux kernel discussion thread to add support for the Ubuntu Linux kernel and Add new bootscript with stock Ubuntu Linux kernel #349. Scaleway has been offering ARM (armv7) cloud servers (baremetal) since 2015 and now they have ARM64 (armv8, from Cavium) cloud servers (through KVM, not baremetal). But …

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How to initialize LXD again

LXD is the pure-container hypervisor that is pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 (or newer) and also available in other GNU/Linux distributions. When you first configure LXD, you need to make important decisions. Decisions that relate to where you are storing the containers, how big that space will be and also how to set up networking. In …

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