[Libguestfs] [PATCH] New API: btrfs_device_stats

[Pino Toscano]

Hi,

On Thursday 18 June 2015 11:01:37 Cao jin wrote:
> > Speaking of this: you said that you have a colleague working on
> > btrfs-progs? What about suggesting to create some machine-parseable
> > output (csv, xml, yaml, json, whatever) so extracting the results of
> > btrfs tools is a lot more easy?
> >
> 
> Yes, I forward your suggestion and consult him, the result is not 
> surprised:( Here is what I learned from him:
>    For the btrfs-progs cmds who output strings, the output are plain, 
> don`t have patterns. Seen some guys who want a formatted output, they do 
> a filter by themself, it not reasonable to ask btrfs-progs to output 
> formatted strings.

This is exactly the issue here: every btrfs command has a totally
different formatting for its output. Just let him take a look at all
the commands implemented so far in libguestfs, you can easily spot
that:
- btrfs subvolume list
- btrfs subvolume show
- btrfs qgroup show
- btrfs balance status
- btrfs scrub status
- btrfs device stats
all have different custom parsers for each of their outputs.

Compare that to e.g. the -m parameter for parted, so it outputs fields
separated by semi-colon.

-- 
Pino Toscano