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

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:16:21PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; 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=m... Unfortunately we can't use that. The license is GPL, while libvirt needs to be LGPL :-(