Hello,
I have written a small article in my blog about chrooting with btrfs subvolumes, I would be happy to improve it for Fedora magazine if you are interested.
The topics covered are:
* chroot on a partition with a ‘classic’ fs (xfs, ext, etc)
* chroot on a btrfs partition with subvolumes (which is not really different )
by the way, English is not my native language, but my British wife can review and correct it.
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Thanks (and thanks in advance to your wife for reviewing )
It needs to be re-covered. 2016 is some time ago and honestly, anyone coming across it would be discouraged by the date. Linux is full of articles and commands sometimes going back decades, that new users look at, and assume it no longer applies to the current version due to the article date. I will say the same for podman, toolbox, policycoreutils-sandbox and a couple others…
hi, while doing some more research, I read this old article which explains why using systemd-nspawn is better than using chroot to run a command on a third party OS especially from systemd. I understand better why you proposed to make an article about it and I encourage you to do so… I find mine much less useful suddenly…
I read your article on Fedora magazine and it was great ! Congrats to you for that !. Love the example of using the Fedora Security spin as well. Cheers !
My use case for systemd-nspawn is different than the " chroot > recover system > happy " steps most use it for. I like to sandbox applications with it and have been doing so since Fedora 25. Flatpak and Podman have changed my work flow slightly and solved the no root required option, but toolbox falls short a bit here. policycoreutils-sandbox works great for isolation but it’s never covered.
a write up of these things would be an amalgamation of process, use case and how to’s. It would be more of a series than a write up…
I think podman need more attention, “What/Why you need to use podman, How to use” etc. There are so many articles that tie podman to docker, when you can effectively ignore docker altogether.
All of that sounds to me like stuff that other people might want to do as well. Certainly if you are using Fedora Linux and/or other FOSS to do it, such articles would be very welcome on the magazine. If it is highly complex, try to break it down into smaller “bite sized” pieces that people can read and comprehend in just a few minutes. There are no length requirements however. If it needs to be longer, that is OK.