[parted-devel] What should I work on?

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Tue Oct 16 12:16:47 UTC 2007


"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> writes:

>> I think I could help you with the vfs development.  What I think would
>> be useful is to essentially treat each filesystem type, and
>> corresponding library as a plugin to parted.  This would allow for the
>> addition and extension for new filesystems relatively easy.  Merely
>> attach/bind the desired parted function to a set of routines these
>> outside libraries have.
>
> Yes, that was the idea when I wrote the SoC proposal some months back.
> David Cantrell was supposed to be my mentor then. Let's see if he has
> anything to add. :-)

Perfect :-)

I'd say that start converting most obvious filesystems to use
libraries will be of great help to draw the need interfaces for it.

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