[Libguestfs] [PATCH 09/10] New API: mksquashfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:12:10AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Introduce a new API to create a new squashfs filesystem out of a path
> in the guest.  It can be configured to exclude paths based on patterns,
> and to select which compression use for the filesystem.
> 
> The advantage of running mksquashfs directly in the appliance is that
> ownerships are properly saved, as opposed to tar_out + local untar.

I'm fairly sure this was proposed before as an API, but I cannot find
that right now.  Was rejected because mksquashfs doesn't support
streaming output.

However I'm fine with this, although perhaps there should be a warning
in the longdesc saying that there may be problems with large files.  I
think this API will break in the region of 3GB.

Rich.

> diff --git a/generator/actions.ml b/generator/actions.ml
> index fd6cc9f..409f399 100644
> --- a/generator/actions.ml
> +++ b/generator/actions.ml
> @@ -13292,6 +13292,32 @@ is removed." };
>      shortdesc = "search the entries associated to the given inode";
>      longdesc = "Internal function for find_inode." };
>  
> +  { defaults with
> +    name = "mksquashfs"; added = (1, 35, 25);
> +    style = RErr, [Pathname "path"; FileOut "filename"], [OString "compress"; OStringList "excludes"];
> +    proc_nr = Some 471;
> +    optional = Some "squashfs";
> +    cancellable = true;
> +    shortdesc = "create a squashfs filesystem";
> +    longdesc = "\
> +Create a squashfs filesystem for the specified C<path>.
> +
> +The optional C<compress> flag controls compression.  If not given,
> +then the output compressed using C<gzip>.  Otherwise one
> +of the following strings may be given to select the compression
> +type of the squashfs: C<gzip>, C<lzma>, C<lzo>, C<lz4>, C<xz>.
> +
> +The other optional arguments are:
> +
> +=over 4
> +
> +=item C<excludes>
> +
> +A list of wildcards.  Files are excluded if they match any of the
> +wildcards.
> +

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