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@@ -6,24 +6,46 @@ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00114.html
 We badly need to actually implement the FTP server mentioned in the
 documentation.
 
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+Or: Implement a FUSE-based filesystem.  See the FUSE mountlo
+project which does something similar, albeit only to single
+filesystems:
+
+http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=150116
 
-(From Ján ONDREJ (SAL))
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-We should provide a way to stream partitions in and out.
+BufferIn and BufferOut should turn into <char *, int> and simple
+strings in other languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types.
+ - then implement write-file properly
+ - and implement read-file
 
-Thus:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-dd-out /dev/sda1 > [some file]
+Implement febootstrap command.
 
-dd-in /dev/sda1 < [some file]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Along with this, we need to be able to call the resize2fs program to
-resize the filesystem in case it is larger or smaller than the target
-partition.
+Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 
-Another useful feature would be to allow rsync to/from a stream for
-whole filesystems and subdirectories.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-The current protocol is message-oriented and doesn't support
-streaming.  But it's simple enough that we could add this.
+Practically, resizing the partitions when a block device is resized
+isn't possible.  So for example it's not possible to resize a Fedora
+block device.  If you try to use sfdisk-N to change the boundaries of
+the existing partition to fill up the new space, you get an error that
+the partition is in use.
+
+The reason, I now think, is because LVM is using the partition as a
+PV, and this locks it as far as the kernel is concerned.
+
+Removing the PV [which is what we do in the test suite] isn't
+desirable if the PV contains data you care about.  Rebooting the qemu
+subprocess after the partition table change works, but isn't very
+cool.  I believe what we need to do is to temporarily reconfigure LVM
+(using /etc/lvm/lvm.conf) to ignore the PV, vgscan (which will then
+ignore the PV), make the changes to the partition table, then set the
+LVM configuration back and do a final vgscan.
+
+Need to test the above, and find a nice way to present it through
+the API.