Re: Reiserfs functionality

[Pradeep Padala]

> 
> In 1.6.x, resize is supported, but not mkfs.  In the long run,
> I think it would be better to use e2fsprogs code, just Ted Tso
> doesn't seem to like the idea of putting everything in libraries,
> which could make life difficult.

Yeah. I was thinking similarly. The libraries should contain
enough functionality to get the work done like resizing, shrinking
etc.. Does reiserfs has some libraries or the code is taken from the
reiserfsprogs. It would be difficult to maintain the code, if
libraries are not available and we hack the code, I guess.

> I don't know about jfs, but certainly hfs and ntfs would love
> some more help :)
> 
> I haven't investigated hfs thoroughly to see how much work it
> is to support resizing... I think the libhfsplus library is
> fairly complete/ready for it.

I would look into it. I wanted to work on journaling file systems. Is
it ok if I go on with jfs?

--pradeep