[Fwd: Re: reiserfs support]

[Yura Umanets]

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Subject: Re: reiserfs support
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:24:23 +0200
From: Yury Umanets <address@hidden>
Organization: Priocom Corp.
To: Hans Reiser <address@hidden>
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Hans Reiser wrote:

> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Yura Umanets wrote:
>>
>>> And I don't mind too. We have to discuss it.
>>>
>>
>> Am I correct that you mostly lack shared userland reiserfs library?
>> Which
>> functions do you realy need? Can you point us to corresponding things in
>> e2progs? Feel free to speak russian if it is more convinient for you.
>>
Thats right. Some projects need reiserfs functionality. They hack it up
every time as needed. There are parted, grub. I'm going to create
ext2_to_reiserfs convertor. It will need libreiserfs too.

The parted needed at least reiserfs_open, reiserfs_create,
reiserfs_close, reiserfs_resize, and some utilities. However, parted
maintainer (Andrew Clausen) constantly improves parted by new features.
The GRUB needed simple file access and fs probing. Other projects may
required more fuctionality from libreiserfs.

I have implemented almost all functionality (based on
reiserfsprogs-3.x.0k) needed by parted. However, what I should do if new
version of the reiserfs will comes out? To hack up again?

It is good idea, to create libreiserfs with constantly interface.

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Yury Umanets
IT Engineer of Priocom Corp.
Phone: +380 44 2011959, ICQ: 55494590




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Yury Umanets
IT Engineer of Priocom Corp.
Phone: +380 44 2011959, ICQ: 55494590