On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > (2) It only understands a limited set of partition types. Assuming that > the files and partitions that we get back from libvirt / Xen correspond > to block devices in the guests, we can go some way towards manually > parsing those partitions to find out what they contain. We can read the > MBR, EBR, superblocks and so on. However that's a lot of parsing work, > and currently there is no library which understands a wide range of > partition schemes and filesystem types (not even libparted which doesn't > support LVM yet). The Linux kernel does support that, but there's not > really any good way to access that work. Note that extending libfsimage would be the way to go for the latter part of this (understanding file systems), I think. regards, john _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
