Re: Writing a wtapper for BTRFS

[Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>]

On 02/27/2013 01:34 PM, Zach Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:19:57PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:08:46PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>>     You may want to look at the btrfs-progs libify patches (posted to
>>> this list in the last couple of months), which try to pull out the
>>> more useful bits of btrfs-progs as a userspace C API.
>>
>> FYI, libify patch will be in the next integration branch.
>>
>>>     You may also want to look at the bits I implemented in python[2]
>>> for a subset of the btrfs ioctls and data structures in btrfs-gui.
>>>
>>>     Other than that, it's down to the data structures documentation on
>>> the wiki[1], and reading through ioctl.h.
>>
>> bedup https://github.com/g2p/bedup does python binding, in a different
>> way than btrfs-gui.
>
> Andy also mentioned being interested in language bindings of a libified
> btrfs-progs, cc:ing.

Yeah. Python/otherlang wrappers around a btrfs-progs C api seem 
preferable to each binding calling ioctls themselves, no? I think every 
common language is going to eventually want a btrfs lib.

-- Andy