Is it normal for lxd images to be stored in / instead of the zfs pool?

[tomp (Thomas Parrott)]

Yes it is normal.

Please see my recent post on this topic and how to specify the downloaded images are stored on a custom volume:

Container fails to start after creation from image

When the compressed image files are downloaded they are normally stored in a location on your / partition inside the snap. However if you set storage.images_volume then these compressed files will be stored in the custom volume you specify. This can prevent the / partition be filled up with downloaded images. Then when you create an instance from one of those images, if the storage pool being used supports efficient snapshots, then first the compressed image file is unpacked into an “image volu…