[Libguestfs] How many fs types do we need to test

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:36:14PM +0800, Yufang Zhang wrote:
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> On 04/20/2010 03:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 01:29:19PM +0800, Pengzhen Cao wrote:
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>>> Hi Richard,
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>>> How many fs types does libguestfs support now?
>>> And how many do you suggest we test? We are now covered ext2/3/4/fat32/ntfs.
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>> Yes, that's fine!  There's no reason to test other filesystems since
>> they're very rarely used and (AFAIK) not supported by Red Hat.
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>> Rich.
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> It seems that in RHEL-6, we can not manage images on which ntfs is built  
> on via libguestfs.

Yes, this a bug actually.  It's bug 586341 but only viewable
to Red Hat associates.

> So can I make a conclusion that in RHEL-6, libguestfs  
> only support ext2/3/4/vfat?

No!  It's just a bug which we'll fix.

Rich.

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