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* [[/readme/|README]] Low-level commands for advanced users only
 
* [[/readme/|README]] Low-level commands for advanced users only
 
* ploop and [[/sparse/]] images
 
* ploop and [[/sparse/]] images
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* [[/Mount helpers/]] to use standard <code>mount</code>/<code>umount</code> commands
 
* {{Man|ploop|8}} man page
 
* {{Man|ploop|8}} man page
  

Revision as of 02:25, 21 November 2013

Ploop is a disk loopback block device, not unlike loop but with many features like dynamic resize, snapshots, backups etc. The main idea is to put container filesystem in a file.

Articles about ploop in openvz blog:

Source code and packages downloads: