Hello, I would like to know to which extent ZFS is supported as filesystem for podmain containers. In particular, I'd like to know if it is possible to use ZFS clones as a backend for the container filesystem layering and if zfs datasets are usable for rootless containers (using zfs delegation). Is ZFS integration done transparently, i.e. are zfs dataset clones created when a new layer is created in a transparent way without explicit zfs commands?

On 4/15/20 08:35, Ingvar.Bogdahn(a)itzbund.de wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know to which extent ZFS is supported as filesystem for podmain containers. > > In particular, I'd like to know if it is possible to use ZFS clones as a backend for the container filesystem layering and if zfs datasets are usable for rootless containers (using zfs delegation). Is ZFS integration done transparently, i.e. are zfs dataset clones created when a new layer is created in a transparent way without explicit zfs commands? > > Thank you > > > Best regards, > Ingvar Bogdahn > > _______________________________________________ > Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io > To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io While we have support for this in container/storage, I have no idea how many people use it. Most people use simple Overlayfs which I believe will work on top of zfs. I am also not sure if ZFS will work as a backend in rootless mode. We use fuse-overlay to make this possible, so if you are attempting to run rootless, this might also be a concern. The Linux kernel currently only allows not root users inside of a user namespace to mount certain types of file systems. procfs, tmpfs, bind, sysfs, and fuse (I believe this is the currently limit). So if zfs cloning requires a mount it will probably not work. _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io