search for: by_path

...cache_size; + +/** + * Cache daemon disk mapping. + * + * When the daemon starts up, populate a cache with the contents + * of /dev/disk/by-path. It's easiest to use C<ls -lv> here + * since the names are sorted awkwardly. + */ +void +device_name_translation_init (void) +{ + const char *by_path = "/dev/disk/by-path"; + CLEANUP_FREE char *out = NULL, *err = NULL; + CLEANUP_FREE_STRING_LIST char **lines = NULL; + size_t i, n; + int r; + + device_name_translation_free (); + + r = command (&out, &err, "ls", "-1v", by_path, NULL); + if (r == -1) +...

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-February/msg00220.html This patch series is a little bit better. It's still a bit of a hack. The _real_ fix for this is outlined in the TODO file (see patch 1) but that requires a lot more work than we could do before 1.42 is released, unless we delay 1.42 for a lot longer. I'm hoping with this to have something which works