On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:16, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Yury Umanets] > > 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. > > I can't vouch for all the debian folks, but this debian person uses > libparted in autopartkit, and would love to have a library capable of > doing all the thinks I need, and not only part of it. > > The parts I am missing at the moment are documented in bug #177347 > "libparted1.6-0: Should support creating ext3 filesystems" and bug > #177348 "libparted1.6-0: Should support creating LVM partitions and > volumes". > > If someone would fix these things, I could get rid of several cludges > and hacks in autopartkit.
There are two possible ways: (1) To hack ext2fsprogs and add ext3 support to libparted (this ways is preferred from standpoint of quickness of adding such a support, since parted contains lots of ext2/3 code for it purposes and ext2fsprogs package probably does not have such a high level functions needed by parted like resize(), copy(), etc). (2) Try to make parted use libext2/3 like it uses libreiserfs (this way is preferred one from standpoint of parted design paradigm and common sence). Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
