On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If you look critically we have been using UI/CLI as API, > IMO these two class of interfaces be distinct clearly. > > Btrfs needs library functions/APIs which is callable in > popular scripting language like python. I'm not sure what this is using to get btrfs info, it's written in c. https://github.com/storaged-project/storaged/tree/master/modules/btrfs This is python and has a btrfs backed that depends on user space tools, the comments pretty clearly express the challenges with using user space tools as a primary means to interface with Btrfs volumes. http://sourceforge.net/p/storagemanager/code/ci/devel/tree/ssmlib/backends/btrfs.py Red Hat's installer, Anaconda, has split out its storage configuration module into python-blivet to enable a bunch of storage work to be done in Python, including a lot of Btrfs functionality. Some of this just got too complicated I guess for blivet, and has been split out into libblockdev, which includes plugin apis, and there happens to be one for Btrfs. But I have no idea where it goes from there. https://github.com/rhinstaller/libblockdev https://github.com/rhinstaller/libblockdev/blob/master/src/lib/plugin_apis/btrfs.api So yeah, people are trying to do this. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
