Re: Win Libparted

[Yury V. Umanets]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:47:06PM +0300, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:33, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:16:03PM +0300, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 21:04, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'm not aware of any Free partition programs available for 
> > > > > > > Windows.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Free in what sense? :) There are a lot free (as free beer) but none 
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > source AFAIK -- although I've never checked :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Free as in freedom; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > There also exists a libntfs (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/),
> > > > > adding ntfs support shouldn't be very difficult I think.
> > > > Probably it should be so difficult to write an interface in parted to
> > > > libntfs. But I guess, that it does not do all that things parted
> > > > requires from. I mean resize, copy, etc.
> > > 
> > > Notice that nothing forces you to implement all the libparted
> > > functionalities. You could start by implementing probe first, create
> > > second, and then go ahead and implement the other functions.
> > > 
> > > Friendly,
> > > 
> > > Sven Luther
> > Probe is implemented I guess. Create is not difficult, there is needed
> > functionality in libntfs. But the rest... I'm not sure about. It will
> > require lots of research I guess :)
> 
> But it can be done in the frame of libntfs, can't it ?
Why? I have spoken with Anton and he seemed pragmatical man. If
somewhere in userspace should be ntfs code, it definitely should be in
libntfs.

Also, parted tends to use libraries instead of own implementation for
all the filesystems.

So, if you one wants to implement ntfs support in parted, he should
definitely take a look to libtfs first and figure out what should be
added/changed.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
-- 
umka