Re: parted/LVM for ET [Re: [Libvir] Storage manager initial requirements and thoughts
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
> How important do you guys think having LVM support will be to ET projects?
> And when will you need it?
For my point of view, as former sysadmin, virtualisation and LVM are
such a natural fit for each other that I can hardly imagine _not_
provisioning new virtual servers from space in a VG.
I did look at the API for libparted a few months ago (actually from the
rather ancient released version on gnu.org) and it didn't look to me
like there was any way to express LVM notions through the API, so I
guess this will require a lot of new API calls and structures?
Exposing all of the LVM command-line tool functionality via an API will
involve a *lot* of work. I'm hoping we can get by with a small subset.
Some more open question to everyone else:
Do we need Python bindings?
About two weeks ago, I heard that someone started working on
hand-crafted Python and C++ bindings for parted.