Re: libparted and libstore

2001-04-12 Thread Roland McGrath
> > Well, the reason I was in favor of using Parted was to have a single clean > > code base for the partition reading, and preferably to use Zthe canonical > > sanctioned GNU thing if technical concerns permit. > > What is the canonical sanctioned GNU thing? I was referring to Parted. Since it

Re: libparted and libstore

2001-04-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > Thus, it might be reasonable to ask the Parted developers to create > > a mini library, e.g. libpartread, which contains the desired > > functionality. > > Well, the reason I was in favor of using Parted was to have a single clean > code base for the partition reading, and preferably to use Z

Re: libparted and libstore

2001-03-26 Thread Roland McGrath
> Roland, as you have suggested, I have taken a look at using libparted > in libstore. This seems reasonable to do, however, it has two main > drawback: it is huge, which is to say, we want to read a partition table > (libparted does a lot of checks) and we do not really care about creating > oth

libparted and libstore

2001-03-26 Thread Neal H Walfield
Roland, as you have suggested, I have taken a look at using libparted in libstore. This seems reasonable to do, however, it has two main drawback: it is huge, which is to say, we want to read a partition table (libparted does a lot of checks) and we do not really care about creating other partiti