[Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: docs: State that guestfs_list_filesystems is no longer requires to be used soon after launch when nothing is mounted
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 23 10:29:39 UTC 2018
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:37:26AM +0200, Mykola Ivanets wrote:
> guestfs_list_filesystems uses mount/umount to discover btrfs sub-volumes and since 1.37 it generates random mountpoint so it will longer affect already mounted filesystems if either.
> ---
> generator/actions_core.ml | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/generator/actions_core.ml b/generator/actions_core.ml
> index ed8cb16..9a695c0 100644
> --- a/generator/actions_core.ml
> +++ b/generator/actions_core.ml
> @@ -9674,7 +9674,8 @@ content of the device is undetermined or empty.
>
> This command runs other libguestfs commands, which might include
> C<guestfs_mount> and C<guestfs_umount>, and therefore you should
> -use this soon after launch and only when nothing is mounted.
> +use this soon after launch and only when nothing is mounted
> +(it is no longer a requirement since 1.37).
>
> Not all of the filesystems returned will be mountable. In
> particular, swap partitions are returned in the list. Also
> --
> 2.9.5
I made some small adjustments to the language to make it read
a little more clearly and pushed it.
Thanks,
Rich.
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