[parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9

[Matt Davis]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:13:34AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:12:52PM -0400, Matt Davis wrote:
> > What about the "history/save" feature?  More or less, I threw together a few
> 
> So this is something you would activate?  Like calling parted with a
> special argument so this get activated?

That would be advisable.  However, it is enabled by default in that patch set I
mentioned.


> > patchset a while back, that did not perform any disk changes until a "save"
> > command was issued.  All of the commands to execute were queued, so that the
> 
> Why use a queue?  Why not use the parted internal structures (and not do
> a commit like we currently do) but just change the internal structure.
> After the user has given the save call disk.commit()

IIRC That is what is done.  However, its been quite some time since I have
actually played with this patch set.  I agree, using an internal container would
be better.  I appreciate your suggestions.


> > user could undo/redo changes before committing to disk.
> > 
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-November/002034.html
> 
> This is a _very_ old patch 2007 :).  Any plans to rebase it to current
> git (next branch would be best)?

Yes it is old.  Not sure when I will be able to rebase it.  

Once again, I do appreciate your attention.

-Matt