+# this hopefully should be fixed now
+# # in fedora20 we have some difficulty in properly cleaning up /vservers/<slicename>
+# # also note that running e.g. btrfs subvolume create /vservers/.lvref/image /vservers/foo
+# # behaves differently, whether /vservers/foo exists or not:
+# # if /vservers/foo does not exist, it creates /vservers/foo
+# # but if it does exist, then it creates /vservers/foo/image !!
+# # so we need to check the expected container rootfs does not exist yet
+# # this hopefully could be removed in a future release
+# if os.path.exists (containerDir):
+# logger.log("sliver_lxc: %s: WARNING cleaning up pre-existing %s"%(name,containerDir))
+# command = ['btrfs', 'subvolume', 'delete', containerDir]
+# logger.log_call(command, BTRFS_TIMEOUT)
+# # re-check
+# if os.path.exists (containerDir):
+# logger.log('sliver_lxc: %s: ERROR Could not create sliver - could not clean up empty %s'%(name,containerDir))
+# return
+