Adding a mount after container is running?
Hello.
What is the way to add a new filesystem mount to an already running container? I want to "propagate" a newly created filesystem, or another part of host filesystem, to a container without restarting it.
I can imagine a way to "propagate" a new filesystem - by (maybe temporarily) granting access for the block device in question to the container and doing a real mount from there. I'm not sure if it's equivalent to a bind-mount in terms of resulting behavour (I sent this question to lkml a few mins ago), but at least this is easily doable.
But if I want to add a part of existing filesystem tree to my container, things becomes somewhat less clean. Still doable in a similar way - by mounting it in container in a temp place, bind-mounting a needed part to the right place, and umounting the temp one. But it's not clean ;)
Is there a better way?
Thanks!
/mjt