Re: [PATCH] Operating system independence; Hurd Port.

[Andrew Clausen]

Wouter Coene wrote:
> According to Andrew Clausen (address@hidden):
> > So, the arch interface is something like:
> > _arch_device_{new,stat,[refresh]_{open,close},read,write,check,sync}
> > _arch_probe_all
> 
> How about a function to determine the block device of a partition in a
> system-independent way? Quite handy when you have to mount the filesystem
> afterwards.

Sorry, I noticed I didn't answer your mail!

Anyway, I don't think this should be a PedDevice issue, but
a PedDisk / PedPartition issue.  This is going to get complicated
with LVM/encryption/etc (I want Parted to head in that direction...
;-)

This will probably come up in discussions between EVMS and
Parted people, which should be starting now.

So, I should recommend everyone has a look at:

        http://oss.software.ibm.com/evms

Because Parted is probably going to end up merging with it ;-)

Andrew Clausen