From: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:39:27 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add a comment to device naming heuristic
X-Git-Tag: 1.0.54~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=228b19aa9c28b03b339e8e23fcb46359e3ab617e;p=libguestfs.git

Add a comment to device naming heuristic
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diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector.pl b/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
index bd8de70..b5d62ae 100755
--- a/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
+++ b/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
@@ -705,6 +705,12 @@ sub find_filesystem
     } else {
 	return ($_, $fses{$_}) if exists $fses{$_};
 
+        # The following is to handle the case where an fstab entry specifies a
+        # specific device rather than its label or uuid, and the libguestfs
+        # appliance has named the device differently due to the use of a
+        # different driver.
+        # This will work as long as the underlying drivers recognise devices in
+        # the same order.
 	if (m{^/dev/hd(.*)} && exists $fses{"/dev/sd$1"}) {
 	    return ("/dev/sd$1", $fses{"/dev/sd$1"});
 	}