"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.