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In nutshell LXC is (blurb). If you are interested in Docker or Cloud, not yet ready to give up your ssh console start here. Learning LXC, you'll also really understand how Docker and Cloud works under the hoods.

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Not sure if this functionality exists yet. Solaris has a concept of a sparse root zone which I would call here sparse container. The idea to reduce scope overhead so that aside from basics (home, opt, temp) the rest of the file system is actually mounted as read-only from the Host OS. In this model we have tighter security and upgrade the Host OS would upgrade all containers on the OSwith minimal packages.

File Structure

You will need to use sudo or root to view the directories. I use root,

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