Re: libparted trashes reiserfs and enjoys it! (fwd)

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:30:26PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> >>Now, code is welcome to use reiserfsprog library and reimplement the 
> >>reiserfs
> >>resizing support in libparted, but nobody seems to care enough about 
> >>reiserfs
> >>to actually provide code.
> 
> That is possible in principle ;) And even could better, as reiserfsprogs 
> is supported by Namesys.
> 
> However, person saying that, seem knows nothing about reiserfsprogs. 

Indeed, my understanding of it is very limited.

> There is no magical library functions like resize, create, etc. All the 
> stuff is located in progs itself and using just library is impossible.
> Library there is just a pile of code which is impossiblke to be re-used. 
> That was main reason why I wroite libreiserfs.

Well, i guess that this means that reiserfsprogs is badly designed to start
with :/

Friendly,

Sven Luther