On Friday 06 May 2005 13:31, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> >I think someone is going to pay us to write the online repacker in the
> >very near future, though I can't say their name.
> >
> >Giovanni, if by parted support you mean that you are going to write a
> >resizer (and now that I take a moment to remember what parted does it
> >seems certain you do mean that), I wish you would not. We are so
> >amazing far in debt right now....
> >
> >
> Hi,
>
> It is important to fix some points to clarify.
>
> At first, "parted" is a binary that interact with the "libparted"
> library to run
> some features about partitions, like:
> * mkfs
> * fsck
> * cp
> * mv
> * resize
> * and others.
>
> Actually, parted have zero support for Reiser4.
>
> Why we need Reiser4 support inside parted?
>
> We need that parted support Reiser4, because our installer actualy a
> hacked version of RedHat anaconda
> uses pyparted that need parted to create the partitions on the FS on
> a new installation.
> (Therefore also RH people and Linux distro that uses anaconda, like
> YellowDog will benefit for this code).
>
> Therefore, we don't need to resize Reiser4 partitions actually.
>
> The necessary code is not necessarely complicated, because libraries
> are well written.
> However, I need to understant how Reiser4 do jobs like fsck and mkfs
> and this code
they are wrappers to libreiser4 & librepair. also have a look at
reiser4progs/demos/busy (it is able to create file on reiser4,
copy them to/from, rm, stat, truncate, etc) which is the wrapper
to libreiser4 too.
> cannot be a simple or equivalent (system("mkfs.reiser4")).
>
> It is necessary to use the parted API to do that.
>
> FTOSX 2004 includes "reiser4" packages, including "libaal", from Sep
> 2004.
> (Check ftp://ftp.futuretg.com/pub/FTOSX/FTOSX_Desktop_2004/i386/SRPMS)
>
> I create some directories, one for parted 1.6.15 (my hacked version)
> and another for (1.6.22), latest one.
>
> People that want to know more about the internal of this code, can
> browse:
>
> ftp://ftp.futuretg.com/pub/Projects/parted+Reiser4/Actual_without_support/parted-1.6.15/doc/TUTORIAL
>
> I need to update around 111 chapters in six courses, and therefore I
> will dedicate only 1/2 hours per day to move on
> on this matter.
>
> Thanks,
> Giovanni.
>
>
>
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