[Parted-maintainers] Bug#567176: btrfs support

[Luca Bruno]

Joey Hess scrisse:

> I'd like to add btrfs support to d-i. A prerequisite is that parted at
> least be able to identify btrfs filesystems.
> Luca's patch here should be sufficient for that:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-February/002585.html
> Luca, what is the status of full support?

I still maintain that patch updated and rebased against latest master
(and can attach here if needed). Creation can be added too without much
effort, for the simplest case (single-device, no raid, no multi-vol,
etc.), and I think this is what is initially needed for your self-living
d-i. I've not hacked myself through it yet, but can look at it after
this three-week exams session.

By the way, this discussion comes in a wider scenario, because soon much
more apps would benefit from some sort of btrfs-awereness, and the
current user-space situation is far from optimal. Plus, actual
btrfs-related codebase is released under GPLv2-only, when much of
our user-space is now gone to GPLv3, libparted too (so no easy code
reuse).

I'm thinking of a more integrated goal (which should include easy
reuse, eg. to use in grub too) but I still have to trace a better image.
A lib from scratch? Asking oracle and rh for relicensing? Whatelse?
Comments/ideas appreciated.

Ciao, Luca

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