[openvps-dev] tagxid

[Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy]

Well... Without tagxid you will not be able to restrict disk space usage 
per-vps, and mounting your / with tagxid is probably not a good idea 
since a non VServer kernel will not be able to mount it.

Generally, I've never tested OpenVPS on a system where /vservers was not a 
spearate partition. Definitely the ovbackup script will not like it 
because it assumes it's a "dumpable" mount point.

One workaround may be to create a loop-mounted filesystem, e.g for 1GB 
(you'll probably need more than that though).

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/VSERVERS bs=1M count=1000
# losetup /dev/loop0 /VSERVERS
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0
# mount -o tagxid /dev/loop0 /vservers

If you need for it to mount on startup, you'll need write an init script 
for it, or as a hack stick it rc.sysinit or something....

Grisha


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Following the instructions at
> 	http://www.openvps.org/Plone/docs/developer/openvps-howto
> this jumped out at me.
>
> I have a single partition RAID system ( beside the swap ) no /vservers
> partition.  Do I need to change it to tagxid and are there any possible
> problems doing this?
>
> Here is my fstab:
>
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /              ext3    defaults     1 1
> /dev/rd/c0d0p1           /boot          ext3    defaults     1 2
> none                     /dev/pts       devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                     /dev/shm       tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> none                     /proc          proc    defaults        0 0
> none                     /sys           sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda                 /media/cdrom   auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,
> /dev/scd0                /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,
> /dev/fd0                 /media/floppy  auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,
>
>
> I already sent this to Grisha before I realized/remembered I as on this
> list.
>
>
> TIA,
> Rod
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