Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:16, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Yury Umanets]
> > I guess debian folks probably do not want to use libparted (and
> > reiserfs with it) because it is needed to rewrite some parts of
> > installer. Or reiserfs is not good enough for debian installer.
> 
> I can't vouch for all the debian folks, but this debian person uses
> libparted in autopartkit, and would love to have a library capable of
> doing all the thinks I need, and not only part of it.
> 
> The parts I am missing at the moment are documented in bug #177347
> "libparted1.6-0: Should support creating ext3 filesystems" and bug
> #177348 "libparted1.6-0: Should support creating LVM partitions and
> volumes".
> 
> If someone would fix these things, I could get rid of several cludges
> and hacks in autopartkit.

There are two possible ways:
(1) To hack ext2fsprogs and add ext3 support to libparted (this ways is
preferred from standpoint of quickness of adding such a support, since
parted contains lots of ext2/3 code for it purposes and ext2fsprogs
package probably does not have such a high level functions needed by
parted like resize(), copy(), etc).

(2) Try to make parted use libext2/3 like it uses libreiserfs (this way
is preferred one from standpoint of parted design paradigm and common
sence).

Regards.