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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libfsimage

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:20:33PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > Well, the patches as presented moved all the reiser/ext2 
> > knowledge into pygrub itself.  I'm certainly not opposed to 
> > changes to the pygrub interface, just to unnecessary 
> > replicating of fs-specific code inside the Xen tools.
> 
> I most confess to not atually having read the patches...  What I
> imagined was a way of invoking a binary (or script) to read a file from
> a filesystem. The binary might be linked against e.g. libext2fs, or have
> an fs parsing implementation compiled in.

Plugins are simply provided as a shared image in e.g.
/usr/lib/ext2fs/fsimage.so. Originally I was planning on using the "call
a binary" approach, but Jeremy was very unhappy with that, and it is
somewhat more awkward for searching for grub's config file, etc.

But a vendor can easily provide whatever 'fsimage.so' they feel is more
appropriate.

Simply put, I have no idea how to get Linux distributions to integrate
libfsimage into their packages, otherwise I'd just do that.

regards
john

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