From 502e2a3510c5db03335c0df8abc7f9804a65207b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omar Sandoval Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:04:47 -0800 Subject: Add libbtrfsutil Currently, users wishing to manage Btrfs filesystems programatically have to shell out to btrfs-progs and parse the output. This isn't ideal. The goal of libbtrfsutil is to provide a library version of as many of the operations of btrfs-progs as possible and to migrate btrfs-progs to use it. Rather than simply refactoring the existing btrfs-progs code, the code has to be written from scratch for a couple of reasons: * A lot of the btrfs-progs code was not designed with a nice library API in mind in terms of reusability, naming, and error reporting. * libbtrfsutil is licensed under the LGPL, whereas btrfs-progs is under the GPL, which makes it dubious to directly copy or move the code. Eventually, most of the low-level btrfs-progs code should either live in libbtrfsutil or the shared kernel/userspace filesystem code, and btrfs-progs will just be the CLI wrapper. This first commit just includes the build system changes, license, README, and error reporting helper. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Liu Bo Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- Makefile.inc.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Makefile.inc.in') diff --git a/Makefile.inc.in b/Makefile.inc.in index 56271903..b53bef80 100644 --- a/Makefile.inc.in +++ b/Makefile.inc.in @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ prefix ?= @prefix@ exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@ bindir = @bindir@ libdir ?= @libdir@ -incdir = @includedir@/btrfs +incdir = @includedir@ udevdir = @UDEVDIR@ udevruledir = ${udevdir}/rules.d -- cgit v1.2.3