On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:49, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > What I can say. Reiserfs support in parted is good enough for any linux > > installer IMHO. > > > > It is able to do the following: > > (1) reiserfs create. > > (2) reiserfs destroy :) > > (3) reiserfs resize > > (4) reiserfs copy > > (5) reiserfs move > > > > Actually it is based on progsreiserfs (libreiserfs) and it is able to do > > much more the operations listed above (journal tuning, relocating, etc), > > but parted does not have interface for this yet. It considers supported > > filesystems as non-journaling ones. > > Mmm, interesting. As i am currently doing parted upstream work, i may be > willing to look into this nextishly. > > > I guess debian folks probably do not want to use libparted (and reiserfs > > with it) because it is needed to rewrite some parts of installer. Or > > reiserfs is not good enough for debian installer. > > Parted will be needed anyway on some of the debian supported > architectures, i plan to use it on powerpc for the pegasos boxes, and > probably the apus guys will want to use it already.
> > I think there is already a graphical libparted installer which has > integration problems, what kind of problems? > but there should be no problem at least to use > parted standalone in place of cfdisk. > But then, parted is less user > friendly than cfdisk. This is disputable question actually :) Some people like prated much more then cfdisk. > > > debian people! > > > > If somebody knows something that makes reiserfs support in parted not > > good enough for debian installer, say it to me. I'm author of reiserfs > > support in parted and progsreiserfs and will try to fix it as soon as > > possible. > > A, ok, so no need for me to look into this. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
