On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:43:33PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:14, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Well, first, i have no intention to do so myself too, but it would be > > > nice if you could give us an estimation of the work needed to move the > > > resize code to libntfs ? > > It isn't only about just moving the code to libntfs (I answered this some > month ago on bug-parted) but
Yep, but it is the necessary step to have do the libparted side of things. > - make it work with parted > > - revise parted code > > - test a lot with parted > > - make sure it won't break in the future > > Just see the reiserfs integration, a lot of people destroyed their fs. > Why? Reiserfs bugs? Parted bugs? QTParted bugs? I really don't know. I have the impression that it was because libreiserfs behavior changed somehow, and that libparted was adapted only later. > In short, a hack could be done in days, a proper integration could take > weeks. > > However nobody has enough/much/any free time. As always. > > > I think some libparted guys where also interested by this. > > I'm afraid that was me :) But I'm not a libparted guy. There are things I > don't like in Parted but I agree it would be very useful for many people. I am interested by your opinion, what is it in parted that you dislike and why ? I personaly am a bit disapointed by the code quality of parted/libparted, and have been toying in doing a reimplmentation in ocaml, with maybe some coq-based prooves of good behavior, and having coq generate the corresponding code afterward. But i lack some time for this, and am not sure an ocaml-based libparted reimplementation would be welcome. Especially in the debian-installer case. BTW, the main problem of parted/libparted right now, is that there is no CVS repository of it, and that the code has been mostly unavailable since may 2003 or so. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
