On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:36:01 -0500, John Ferlan wrote:
On 01/12/2017 09:24 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> The check does not work properly (crashes) with netfs filesystems and
> also checking that a device is not empty when attempting to mount a
> filesystem is not very usefull since the mount will fail anyways.
>
> As the code would improve only a very minor corner case I don't really
> see a reason to have this code at all.
>
> This code would also fail if libvirt is compiled without support for
> blkid and without parted.
>
> This reverts commit a11fd69735e6951cda9bf256d8e423696a441aa4.
> ---
> src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c | 13 ++-----------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
Instead of reverting why not just fix the issue.
Because I think the whole check is pointless. It's valid only when
mounting a local filesystem, and in that case basically the same check
is done when mounting the filesystem by the kernel.