Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:49, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What I can say. Reiserfs support in parted is good enough for any linux
> > installer IMHO.
> >
> > It is able to do the following:
> > (1) reiserfs create.
> > (2) reiserfs destroy :)
> > (3) reiserfs resize
> > (4) reiserfs copy
> > (5) reiserfs move
> >
> > Actually it is based on progsreiserfs (libreiserfs) and it is able to do
> > much more the operations listed above (journal tuning, relocating, etc),
> > but parted does not have interface for this yet. It considers supported
> > filesystems as non-journaling ones.
>
> Mmm, interesting. As i am currently doing parted upstream work, i may be
> willing to look into this nextishly.
>
> > 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.
>
> Parted will be needed anyway on some of the debian supported
> architectures, i plan to use it on powerpc for the pegasos boxes, and
> probably the apus guys will want to use it already.
>
> I think there is already a graphical libparted installer which has
> integration problems,
what kind of problems?
> but there should be no problem at least to use
> parted standalone in place of cfdisk.
> But then, parted is less user
> friendly than cfdisk.
This is disputable question actually :) Some people like prated much
more then cfdisk.
>
> > debian people!
> >
> > If somebody knows something that makes reiserfs support in parted not
> > good enough for debian installer, say it to me. I'm author of reiserfs
> > support in parted and progsreiserfs and will try to fix it as soon as
> > possible.
>
> A, ok, so no need for me to look into this.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
Regards.
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