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Re: Questions, additions, and ideas.


From: Sven Luther
Subject: Re: Questions, additions, and ideas.
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:16:24 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:16:45PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> Sven Luther <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Could you commit the code to a branch or something, so we could have a look 
> > at
> > it ? 
> Sure I can have the code on my site this weekend.  Keep in mind the code is 
> just a small working
> demo.  I stopped coding on it when I realized that a offering dual interfaces 
> in parted seems
> more logical then having yet another partitioning program.  As for scraping 
> the parted interface 
> I say nay because there are some people who like and use that interface 
> getting rid of it is 
> pointless IMHO.  What does everyone think about the struct idea I proposed?  
> I think waiting for 
> the user to tell parted when to write to disk is a lot safer and can be used 
> to create what I 
> like an "undo" command, handy IMHO.

Notice that it won't work always, as seems the case on solaris partition
tables which need to be written for partitions to be created, or something
such. I have a debian bug report open about that, but i am not sure i fully
understand the implications of it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther





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