[et-mgmt-tools] Re: [Libvir] virt-df (a 'df' tool for virtual domains)
John Levon
levon at movementarian.org
Thu Sep 27 18:36:35 UTC 2007
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> (2) It only understands a limited set of partition types. Assuming that
> the files and partitions that we get back from libvirt / Xen correspond
> to block devices in the guests, we can go some way towards manually
> parsing those partitions to find out what they contain. We can read the
> MBR, EBR, superblocks and so on. However that's a lot of parsing work,
> and currently there is no library which understands a wide range of
> partition schemes and filesystem types (not even libparted which doesn't
> support LVM yet). The Linux kernel does support that, but there's not
> really any good way to access that work.
Note that extending libfsimage would be the way to go for the latter
part of this (understanding file systems), I think.
regards,
john
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