containerd
Remove necessity to link against C package
When I set out on this journey, the intent was to require only the btrfs headers and not actually link against btrfs. While the goal is somewhat achieved, we still require linking against libbtrfs to achieve correct struct alignment. This needs to be removed.
fair. It's not so much the cgo usage, but rather the linking to libbtrfs (some distros don't provide the *.so along with the headers).
Actually, after https://github.com/containerd/btrfs/pull/12, we are not technically linking against libbtrfs. The project does still require the header files.
Would you consider merging with this library in either direction? It's in pure Go, the code is mostly a line-by-line port of btrfs-tools.
Should I open the pull request to this repository? Or would you consider using the new library?
As an alternative, I can probably transfer the library to containerd.
Could we try replacing the lib with the btrfs snapshotter to run the snapshot test suite aginst to see if there are any issues or change in behavior?
@dennwc looks pretty good.
@stevvooe @dmcgowan what do you think about using, replacing this lib with a pure go implementation?
