Re: Questions, additions, and ideas.

[Harley D. Eades III]

Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:56:42PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have been mucking around with an idea with some older cvs sources.
> > There more then likely is a good reason why parted doesn't do this
> > already but I am going to bring it up anyway.  Parted currently
> > commits changes to disk as soon as they happen.  I have implemented
> > with very little change a parted that has an 'undo' command and only
> > writes the partition changes to disk when the user issues a write.
> 
> What about resizing operations?
There is a warning which displays telling the user that the changes are 
written do disk automatically.  Then it ask if they wish to proceed[y,n]....

> BTW, the introduction of ped_disk_duplicate() was motivated by "undo".
> 
> > Basically the changes I have made where the passing/returning of args
> > to/from functions instead of passing a PedDevice we create only one
> > per disk then pass the PedDisk around altering the struct that way.
> > When ever one needs to access the PedDeivce one uses disk->dev. This
> > seems to work very well.  The reader is probably wondering why I
> > changed parted.  Well upon request from several GNU/Hurd devs I have
> > start to create an interface to libparted that looks and acts exactly
> > like fdisk but with added parted bells and whistles.  I have actually
> > coded the fdisk interface and it now holds every fdisk command plus
> > every parted command.  This brings up another question is the idea of
> > parted being packaged with three interfaces exceed the boundary of
> > possibility? See if not then by default parted would compile the
> > traditional parted interface.  Then if the user would want others they
> > could add options to the configure script i.e. configure --int=fdisk,
> > --int=cfdisk, --int=fdiskfam(both fdisk, cfdisk) or --int=all(fdisk,
> > cfdisk, and parted).  This I think along with several others would be
> > a good addition for parted.  I have talked with several people and a
> > large number of them say they don't use parted because there used to
> > the fdisk interface.  Then I ask would they use it if parted looked
> > and felt like fdisk and they always return a yes.  Like I said in the
> > subject these a merely ideas, ideas that I have working demos of but
> > none the less ideas.  Please comments and feedback are what I am
> > requesting so please do.  Thanks again and happy hackin g.
> 
> Most people probably don't realize that Parted's interface allows you to
> issue commands interactively, with Parted prompting for each parameter
> one-by-one (much like fdisk).  Perhaps the general help text should not
> list the parameters.
> 
> In any case, I think having a fdisk and cfdisk clones would be useful.
Good, then I am going to start serious work on it.  I have been just mucking
untill I got feed back from others.

Cheers
hde