Re: Integrate fully partman-reiser4 into d-i

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

On 09/21/2015 01:12 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 07:40:37AM -0700, Jose R R wrote:
> > I have realized that although partman-reiser4 udeb enables Reiser4 to
> > be listed as an option during the Debian-Installer routine of a
> > netboot ISO image, the lack of support for reiser4 in GNU Parted
> > (Debian's libparted) prevents installation from the GUI interface.
> It should be pretty easy to add that to parted, since nowadays the only
> filesystem support it has is probing support.  I suggest preparing a
> patch against git://git.sv.gnu.org/parted.git master that adds the
> ability to detect existing reiser4 partitions and sending it upstream;
> it should only be on the order of a hundred lines.


Does anybody care to prepare the patch?
I think we just need to a read a sector at REISER4_MAGIC_OFFSET
and check the magic string ("ReIsEr4"), see definition of the struct
reiser4_master_sb.

Thanks,
Edward.


> I'd be happy to cherry-pick such a patch into the Debian packaging once
> it has been committed upstream.