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Posted to reviews@mesos.apache.org by Till Toenshoff <to...@me.com> on 2015/06/16 03:47:52 UTC

Re: Review Request 34427: AppC provisioner backend using bind mounts.

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src/slave/containerizer/provisioners/appc/bind_backend.hpp
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    Given that you dont declare any templates, would it make sense to split this into cpp+hpp?



src/slave/containerizer/provisioners/appc/bind_backend.hpp
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- Till Toenshoff


On May 19, 2015, 6:46 p.m., Ian Downes wrote:
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> (Updated May 19, 2015, 6:46 p.m.)
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> Review request for mesos, Chi Zhang, Paul Brett, Timothy Chen, and Vinod Kone.
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> Repository: mesos
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> Description
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> Note: This is a specialized backend; see notes in bind_backend.hpp.
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> Reproduced here for your convenience:
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> This is a specialized backend that may be useful for deployments
> using large (multi-GB) single-layer images *and* where more
> recent kernel features such as overlayfs are not available. For small
> images (10's to 100's of MB) the Copy backend may be sufficient.
> 1) It supports only a single layer. Multi-layer images will fail
>    to provision and the container will fail to launch!
> 2) The filesystem is read-only because all containers using this
>    image share the source. Select writable areas can be achieved
>    by
>    mounting read-write volumes to places like /tmp, /var/tmp,
>    /home, etc. using the ContainerInfo. These can be relative to
>    the executor work directory.
> 3) It relies on the image persisting in the store.
> 4) It's fast because the bind mount requires (nearly) zero IO.
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> Diffs
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>   src/Makefile.am 34755cf795391c9b8051a5e4acc6caf844984496 
>   src/slave/containerizer/provisioners/appc/backend.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/slave/containerizer/provisioners/appc/bind_backend.hpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/34427/diff/
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> Testing
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> manual testing of a single layer image with RW relative bind mount for /tmp.
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> Thanks,
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> Ian Downes
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