Today I had my first attempt at using LXD with ZFS ‘properly’ as I created a dedicated mirrored ZFS pool for LXD. After creating my pool, I ran lxd init, configured it to use my pool. When I created a new LXD container it created a new ZFS dataset, as I expected. This is where things go off the tra…

Hi! LXD uses namespaced mount-points for the containers, therefore a simple cd into a directory will not show you the files. You would need to first enter into LXD’s namespace and then you are set. Here is the command: sudo nsenter -t $(cat /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd.pid) -m See more at https://bl…

LXD with ZFS - where is my file?

LXD

tomp (Thomas Parrott) February 1, 2021, 2:01pm 17

This may help in restoring a ZFS pool too: