If /var/lib/machines is mounted as btrfs loopback file system in
/var/lib/machines.raw with this change we automatically grow the file
system as it fills up. After each 10M we write to it during imports, we
check the free disk space, and if the fill level grows beyond 66% we
increase the size of the file system to 3x the fill level (thus lowering
it to 33%).
After all it is now much more like strjoin() than strappend(). At the
same time, add support for NULL sentinels, even if they are normally not
necessary.
With this change the pull protocol implementation processes will pass
progress data to importd which then passes this information on via the
bus. We use sd_notify() as generic transport for this communication,
making importd listen to them, while matching the incoming messages to
the right transfer.
The old "systemd-import" binary is now an internal tool. We still use it
as asynchronous backend for systemd-importd. Since the import tool might
require some IO and CPU resources (due to qcow2 explosion, and
decompression), and because we might want to run it with more minimal
priviliges we still keep it around as the worker binary to execute as
child process of importd.
machinectl now has verbs for pulling down images, cancelling them and
listing them.
With this change the import tool will now unpack qcow2 images into
normal raw disk images, suitable for usage with nspawn.
This allows has the benefit of also allowing importing Ubuntu Cloud
images for usage with nspawn.
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.
Lennart Poettering