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Author: Matthew Gibson
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Containers
I had been planning to show up at the linux install fest this saturday.
However, I had my plans for Saturday wiped by a request from my father for
some help. Sadly I will have to wait another little while to see you all at
install fest.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 3:07 PM James Mcphee <> wrote:

> I finally got the danged thing to work. Forgot that xfs on cent7 doesn't
> support the overlay2 d_type dependency. So, what I did as root was the
> following. created 2 ext4 lv's. moved everything in /var/lib/docker to
> one and mounted it up on /var/lib/docker. the other was blank and I
> mounted it up on /opt/seafile-data. That got it to start. The root
> webpage doesn't have a redirect, so you have to poke around a bit. http://<your
> hostname or ip>/accounts/login/
>
> if the d_type thing is your problem, it'll be hanging around in your
> journald logs.
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:23 PM Matthew Gibson <
> > wrote:
>
>> I haven't necessarily tried to recreate an environment as I have
>> attempted to use an image provided by seafile.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:08 PM James Mcphee <> wrote:
>>
>>> I use docker quite a bit. It's an intentionally crippled version of
>>> containers that forces you to obey certain design patterns. Sure you CAN
>>> get around them, but they exist for a reason. For sanity's sake, I suggest
>>> using docker-compose or some other form of automation to recreate your
>>> environments correctly each time. Puppet or whatnot is also perfectly
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:39 PM Todd Cole <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1St I have not used docker as of yet.
>>>> I have been using LXC for over 3 years and with a bit of a learning
>>>> curve I enjoy it, containers are faster than kvm smaller and easy to move
>>>> and migrate or duplicate
>>>> I use turnkey linux for a few of the prebuilt containers.
>>>> a easy inrto is to use Proxmox as a gui to kvm/lxc and after updates
>>>> you can click install turnkey linux containers
>>>> stop by the installfest for a demo or to assist building it and there
>>>> may be a docker person there also
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Gibson <
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 你们好。
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I understand that containers are a good thing. I have been trying
>>>>> to install seafile via docker, following the guide found online at
>>>>> seafile's website. However when I attempt to invoke the dock with it
>>>>> utilizing /opt/seafile as the root directory for the instance, I get errors
>>>>> that the dock can't create directories during the initialization.
>>>>>
>>>>> At this point I'm ready to give up on trying to use containers and
>>>>> simply install upon the bare metal. Thoughts? Ideas?
>>>>> Any requests for specific error output will be delivered when I can
>>>>> get back home and get to it from my computer instead of my phone.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Matt
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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