[parted-devel] Introduction of a new parted-devel list member

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:06:14AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> To synthesize the discussion with Harley: currently, ext2/3 is
> handled by native code and indeed parted should switch to deferring
> some ext2/3 "knowledge" to external code. Whether it should link
> to libext2fs or call mke2fs/e2fsck/resize2fs (which use libext2fs
> themselves) has yet to be decided, and the decision will also have to
> take other filesystems into account.
The specific issue with using libext2fs is AFAIK that it has a 2TB
limit.  I don't know whether the Parted code also exhibits this problem,
but it might have an edge here.

  Leslie


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