X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=fc6b3fd804be969c4dfe3c99457eb5542b2ce2a6;hp=2209619a47bad3b52f106b95e0fe7f8db693ceb1;hb=cf9e01508d48b752a29df4fceb95ed5306651fe2;hpb=bda6cf75f259992bcba23c3c4c2339c50552f491 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2209619..fc6b3fd 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ Ideas for extra commands findfs logsave mklost+found + ext2undelete SELinux: chcat @@ -275,19 +276,83 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ http://osiris.shmoo.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ -Resizing, shrinking, specifying sizes in guestfish --------------------------------------------------- +-N option should be generated +----------------------------- -Owing to an oversight we don't really supporting shrinking -filesystems. See: +'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate +documentation in guestfish(1) manpage. -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221 -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222 -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223 +Fix 'file' +---------- -But a related problem is how to specify sizes to guestfish, ie. "100M" -or "1G". Currently the specific alloc and sparse functions contain -code to parse these size strings, but that cannot be used anywhere -else that would take a byte count. This is awkward because some -commands take units of megabytes (lvresize, sfdiskM) or sectors -(part-add), with no unifying theme. +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00053.html +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00079.html + +Regression test on virt-inspector +--------------------------------- + +Occasionally we break virt-inspector through some change. We should +add a regression test for it. However this is hard because we'd need +to avoid having to carry huge images. + +Freeze/thaw filesystems +----------------------- + +Access to these ioctls: +http://git.kernel.org/linus/fcccf502540e3d7 + +Tips for new users in guestfish +------------------------------- + +$ guestfish +Tip: You need to 'add disk.img' or 'alloc disk.img nn' to make a new image. +Type 'notips' to disable tips permanently. +> add mydisk +Tip: You need to type 'run' before you can see into the disk image. +> run +Tip: Use 'list-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available. +> list-filesystems +/dev/vda1 +Tip: Use 'mount fs /' to mount a filesystem. +> mount /dev/vda1 / +Tip: Use 'll /' to view the filesystem or ... +> ll / + +New guestfish commands +---------------------- + +'list-filesystems' => list mountable filesystems + +We could implement this as a new API call, replacing a number of areas +of the current code where this is done already (in virt-inspector and +elsewhere). What we normally do to find out if a partition contains a +mountable filesystem is to just blindly mount it, and see if that +succeeds. However the kernel won't let us do this if the filesystem +is already mounted somewhere, so a naive implementation of this in the +daemon won't work. We would have to check if the partition was +already mounted. + +Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params? +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +> sparse +[[Prints man page]] +Image name? disk.img +Size of image? 10M + +Common problems +--------------- + +How can we solve these common user problems? + +- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374931.html + In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem. We could suggest + a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems + command. + +Progress of long-running operations +----------------------------------- + +For example, copying in virt-resize. How can we display the progress +of these operations? This is a basic usability requirement, and +frequently requested.