Libguestfs - Jan 2017 - Re: ntfs-3g data deduplication support in guestmount for creating file based back-ups on visualization platform

Thank you Richard!

I will do some more work and testing on this tomorrow, and report back 
with some more information you asked.

In the meanwhile, could you help me with information how I can upgrade 
the ntfs-3g version (same as host) in the "appliance" and add the 
plug-in library?

On 16/01/17 15:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The plugin file *should* be copied into the appliance, assuming that
> it's part of the Debian ntfs-3g package and the Debian ntfs-3g package
> isn't doing anything weird.
The plug-in is added manually and is not part of the ntfs-3g (yet), it 
is manually downloaded and copied.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Jelle de Jong
wrote:
> Thank you Richard!
> 
> I will do some more work and testing on this tomorrow, and report
> back with some more information you asked.
> 
> In the meanwhile, could you help me with information how I can
> upgrade the ntfs-3g version (same as host) in the "appliance" and
> add the plug-in library?
[...]
> The plug-in is added manually and is not part of the ntfs-3g (yet),
> it is manually downloaded and copied.
You can most likely drop a file into /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/
which contains a single line, being the full path of the plugin
file that you want to add.

Actually you can use wildcards there too, so this should work:

  echo '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ntfs-3g/ntfs-plugin-*.so' >
/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-ntfs-plugins

After that, do:

  rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-*

and rerun your libguestfs program (guestmount or whatever).

See "SUPERMIN APPLIANCES" section in the supermin(1) man page for
further information.

Rich.

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Hi Richard,

Is there a way I can access the /var/log/syslog of an running guestmount 
instance to get the grep ntfs-3g /var/log/syslog information?

I managed to get the plug-in to load in my questmount instances by using:

echo '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ntfs-3g/ntfs-plugin-*.so' > 
/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-ntfs-plugins
rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-*

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong

On 16/01/17 16:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Thank you Richard!
>>
>> I will do some more work and testing on this tomorrow, and report
>> back with some more information you asked.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, could you help me with information how I can
>> upgrade the ntfs-3g version (same as host) in the "appliance"
and
>> add the plug-in library?
> [...]
>> The plug-in is added manually and is not part of the ntfs-3g (yet),
>> it is manually downloaded and copied.
>
> You can most likely drop a file into /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/
> which contains a single line, being the full path of the plugin
> file that you want to add.
>
> Actually you can use wildcards there too, so this should work:
>
>   echo '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ntfs-3g/ntfs-plugin-*.so' >
/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-ntfs-plugins
>
> After that, do:
>
>   rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-*
>
> and rerun your libguestfs program (guestmount or whatever).
>
> See "SUPERMIN APPLIANCES" section in the supermin(1) man page for
> further information.
>
> Rich.
>