From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [proposal] making filesystem tools more machine friendly
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:10:54 +0100
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libguestfs could really use structured output from more of the command
line tools.  Particularly:

 - all the ext4 tools
 - all the xfs tools
 - all the btrfs tools
 - parted

and more.  See also:

  https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/daemon

A dbus service would not be useful.

Rich.

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