[parted-devel] Need another developer?

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:11 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> "David Olsson" <dolsson5 at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> >    That's great, Anant!  I've subscribed to the list and reviewed some of
>> >    the recent postings.  I'll study the documentation and sources and git
>> >    and such.  Preserving extended attributes jumps out as something I'd
>> >    like to see done.  The roadmap mentions it as part of developing a VFS
>> >    layer.  That sounds like a major overhaul.  Is anyone looking into
>> >    that?
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> I'm not aware of someone working on it until now. That kind of feature
>> deserves a bit of discussion and drafting of API and layers involved
>> to avoid mistakes.
>> 
>> Would be great if you want to study it and make the first proposal :-)
>
> This is something I was going to address at FOSDEM in the parted
> Lightning Talk.
>
> It's not a simple matter of adding support for extended attributes.  We
> need to rework the fs API so we can not only gain extended attributes
> for ext3, but also support filesystems that we don't current have
> support for.

I think he has understood that.

On VFS layer, we also should add support to handle external libraries
and binaries to be used together with libparted to allow us to remove
a bunch of repeated code from libparted itself.

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