Le Lundi 13 Mars 2006 19:05, Jean-Rémy Falleri a écrit : > Ok! From what I read, I think now that this format application could > do more than just formatting media. So can we imagine it to be a > simple partition manager, with which you can create a volume, delete a > volume, format a volume, etc...
From the user point of view you can: 1) reformat a volume, keeping its fstype The application needs nothing more than progress and error reporting 2) reformat a volume, changing its fstype The application needs progress and error reporting, some repartitioning might be done under the hood (and transparently) 3) "format" an empty storage device (no volume were previously on it) Here we can go the easy way and consider that user want to format the whole storage (in this case partitioning should also be done transparently). But maybe we'd want to allow more... in this case it should be done in another application maybe (read: not kformat). I'm not sure it wouldn't be overkill though, it seems really low level and maybe it doesn't makes sense to expose it through Solid. To this short list we could also add raid and lvm (even more partitioning tasks...). And we should definitely add the crypto volume case... but this one doesn't look complicated, we only need to ask some specific information. In any case it'll depend which features the backends will provide. AFAIK for HAL there's some work on volume formatting, but I don't know if there's any plan or work going on about storage partitioning. Davidz do you have any insight on this? Regards. -- Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net "Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître, Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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