Fixed by https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/760.
** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532125 Title: lxc-clone: Use btrfs backing store if original container does Status in lxc package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: lxc-clone documents the backingstore option as "Select a different backing store for the new container. By default the same as the original container's is used.". This sounds like if the original container uses btrfs, the cloned container should as well. I have the LXC data dir on btrfs, and did lxc-create -n adt-xenial -B best. This correctly selected btrfs backing store: ID 293 gen 16369 top level 5 path lxc/adt-xenial/rootfs However, cloning is slow: $ time sudo lxc-clone -o adt-xenial -n x1 Created container x1 as copy of adt-xenial real 0m9.417s user 0m1.359s sys 0m4.436s It did create a new btrfs snapshot: ID 297 gen 16372 top level 5 path lxc/x1/rootfs but apparently not as a copy of the original lxc/adt-xenial/rootfs one. If I explicitly select btrfs as backingstore, it works as intended: $ time sudo lxc-clone -B btrfs -o adt-xenial -n x1 Created container x1 as copy of adt-xenial real 0m0.136s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.012s However, for scripts this is impractical, as it's not quite obvious how to determine whether the original container uses btrfs backing store, and "-B best" (which works for lxc-create) does not work for lxc-clone. So it seems lxc-clone does not actually use "the same -B as the original container"? I haven't tested this for other backing stores. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: lxc 1.1.5-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Jan 8 10:10:03 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: lxc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) defaults.conf: lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.link = lxcbr0 lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx lxc.conf: lxc.lxcpath = /srv/lxc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1532125/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp