Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:05:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> 
>>Couldn't this just be a wrapper to mkfs.reiser4 and fsck.reiser4?
> 
> 
> Almost.
> 
> As it stands, libparted can't delegate out I/O to external programs,
> because its filesystem API address in terms of disk sectors rather
> than partitions.  libparted could be improved to map sectors back
> to partitions for external communication, though.
> (I wonder if clever use of devicemapper could make this very simple?)

Ick.  Well, I suppose that just means some usage of libreiser4, maybe
some moving of code from the apps to the library?

> Also, error handling (especially with i18n) could be somewhat painful
> with this approach.

I know very little about error handling.  Most of the time, I don't add
error handling until something actually blows up, or until I have to
show my code to the world.
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