This adds an internal API that permits querying metadata from any type
of image, including both subvol/dir images, and raw/block images. In the
latter case we use the new dissection API we just added.
This adds some basic discovery of block device images for nspawn and
friends. Note that this doesn't add searching for block devices using
udev, but instead expects users to symlink relevant block devices into
/var/lib/machines. Discovery is hence done exactly like for
dir/subvol/raw file images, except that what is found may be a (symlink
to) a block device.
For now, we do not support cloning these images, but removal, renaming
and read-only flags are supported to the point where that makes sense.
Fixe: #6990
Continuing the general trend of splitting up util.[ch]. I specifically
want to reuse this code in https://github.com/GNOME/libglnx and
having it split up will make future copy-pasting easier.
After all, nspawn can now dissect MBR partition levels, too, hence
".gpt" appears a misnomer. Moreover, the the .raw suffix for these files
is already pretty popular (the Fedora disk images use it for example),
hence sounds like an OK scheme to adopt.
This adds three kinds of file system locks for container images:
a) a file system lock next to the actual image, in a .lck file in the
same directory the image is located. This lock has the benefit of
usually being located on the same NFS share as the image itself, and
thus allows locking container images across NFS shares.
b) a file system lock in /run, named after st_dev and st_ino of the
root of the image. This lock has the advantage that it is unique even
if the same image is bind mounted to two different places at the same
time, as the ino/dev stays constant for them.
c) a file system lock that is only taken when a new disk image is about
to be created, that ensures that checking whether the name is already
used across the search path, and actually placing the image is not
interrupted by other code taking the name.
a + b are read-write locks. When a container is booted in read-only mode
a read lock is taken, otherwise a write lock.
Lock b is always taken after a, to avoid ABBA problems.
Lock c is mostly relevant when renaming or cloning images.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering
Daniel Mack
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
Colin Walters