Re: Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:14, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > Well, first, i have no intention to do so myself too, but it would be
> > nice if you could give us an estimation of the work needed to move the
> > resize code to libntfs ?
It isn't only about just moving the code to libntfs (I answered this some
month ago on bug-parted) but
- make it work with parted
- revise parted code
- test a lot with parted
- make sure it won't break in the future
Just see the reiserfs integration, a lot of people destroyed their fs.
Why? Reiserfs bugs? Parted bugs? QTParted bugs? I really don't know.
In short, a hack could be done in days, a proper integration could take
weeks.
However nobody has enough/much/any free time.
> > I think some libparted guys where also interested by this.
I'm afraid that was me :) But I'm not a libparted guy. There are things I
don't like in Parted but I agree it would be very useful for many people.
> I am afraid I have no idea as I haven't really looked at the ntfsresize
> code. I am CC:-ing Szaka who wrote and maintains ntfsresize in the hope
> that he will comments.
I commented it in a different thread. If my emails don't get to the list
then please somebody forward them, thanks!
Cheers,
Szaka
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