[Libvir] Re: parted/LVM for ET [Storage manager initial requirements and thoughts

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:16:21PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> And (4) can be done by libvirtd using ordinary POSIX calls, so no
>>>>> external library support is needed, just some work to remote those
>>>>> operations (which is mostly done).
>>>> Isn't doing #4 portably pretty tricky?  There's still too much
>>>> variation, because many of the details aren't covered by POSIX.
>>>> At least for GNU df, it was -- it uses the mountlist module from gnulib:
>>> We don't need to enumerate all the mount points. The admin will simply
>> Lucky you :)
>>
>>> configure particulra directories (eg /var/lib/xen/images) as storage
>>> repositories. So we only need to be able to call statfs/statvfs on
>>> particular paths where we want to create a new image.
>>>
>>>> Of course, if your target is just Linux, then it is easier.
>>> Minimally we have to target Solaris too, since we know they already use
>>> libvirt.
>> Ok.  Then this (also used by df) might help, if you ever
>> need portability to e.g., older Solaris, *BSD, AIX, HP-UX, etc.
>>
>> http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/lib/fsusage.c?root=gnulib&view=markup
> 
> Unfortunately we can't use that. The license is GPL, while libvirt needs
> to be LGPL :-(

I'm sure we can use it as guidance for possible problems though.  I'm 
quite surprised there are portability problems with statfs.  Isn't it a 
v7 call, didn't think there wouldn't be much that could go wrong :-)

Rich.

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