Getting mount stats for filesystems

[Mitko Haralanov]

Hi, I am trying to find a way to figure out whether a certain remote
filesystem is mounted using tcp vs. udp in Python. I've looked at the
statvfs call and module but they don't give me anything useful (the
F_FLAGS field for both a tcp and a udp filesystem is the same.

I could, of course, get the output of mount and parse that but I would
prefer something more elegant.

Thanks for your help!

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Hi, I am trying to find a way to figure out whether a certain remote
filesystem is mounted using tcp vs. udp in Python. I've looked at the
statvfs call and module but they don't give me anything useful (the
F_FLAGS field for both a tcp and a udp filesystem is the same.

I could, of course, get the output of mount and parse that but I would
prefer something more elegant.

I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve. You are on machine B,
and you want to find out whether a remote file system (on machine A)
is mounted remotely (say, from machine C)?

How do you answer that question with mount(8)?

Also, what is a tcp filesystem?

Regards,
Martin

 

[Mitko Haralanov]

I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve. You are on machine B,
and you want to find out whether a remote file system (on machine A)
is mounted remotely (say, from machine C)?

Ok, let me try to explain:

I am on machine A, which has a NFS mounted filesystem hosted on machine
B. All I need to find out is whether the NFS filesystem is mounted
using tcp or udp.

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I am on machine A, which has a NFS mounted filesystem hosted on machine

B. All I need to find out is whether the NFS filesystem is mounted
using tcp or udp.

Ah, ok. I recommend to parse /proc/mounts.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Mitko Haralanov]

Ah, ok. I recommend to parse /proc/mounts.

I was looking for something that reminded me less of Perl and more of C
but haven't been able to find such a method.

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I was looking for something that reminded me less of Perl and more of C
but haven't been able to find such a method.

You could try to invoke getmntent(3). I'm not aware of a Python wrapper
for it, so you either try to write one yourself in C, or use ctypes to
write it in Python.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Mitko Haralanov]

You could try to invoke getmntent(3). I'm not aware of a Python wrapper
for it, so you either try to write one yourself in C, or use ctypes to
write it in Python.

I am looking at ctypes and it might do what I need but I can't figure
out a way to convert a Python File object to a C FILE pointer (which is
the needed argument for getmntent).

Any ideas?

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System Interconnect Group http://www.qlogic.com

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I am looking at ctypes and it might do what I need but I can't figure

out a way to convert a Python File object to a C FILE pointer (which is
the needed argument for getmntent).

Any ideas?

I think you are supposed to pass the pointer to getmntent that you
obtained from setmntent (likely asking for read-only access).

Regards,
Martin