Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 08:47:11 +1000 | From | Andrew Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [Evms-announce] [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 1.0.1 |
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:37:56AM -0500, Steve Pratt wrote: > >Notice you have no error handling, etc. now? > > Do you mean message handling or error reporting. Forking JFS mkfs gives me > just as many return codes as libparted (pass/fail)
Parted gives you a lot more than pass/fail. (Have you read doc/API? There's a section of PedException)
> and other than possibly > some messages, this is all EVMS requires.
Why? EVMS's messaging system allows interactive error handling. Why not use it?
> >Also, while I'm at it: you didn't like my idea for interfacing > >the parted exception system with evms properly? I even wrote the code > >for you (without testing it)... I didn't see a reply to my mail... > >you(s) didn't like it? > > Not that we didn't like it, just have way to many things to do.
Ah, ok.
> >BTW: what do you think of how libparted interfaces with libreiserfs? > >There has been a lot of work, and it has all been merged properly now. > >I think EVMS should do something similar. Have a look in > >libparted/fs_reiserfs. > > I saw mention that you had done this. Do you actually allow options to be > passed to the reiserfs utils, or is it still limited to defaults.
Still just defaults... I plan to do an evms-like parameters interface soonish. Anyway, implementing it shouldn't present any special problems. It is orthogonal to the way libparted and libreiserfs interface themselves.
> Last > time I looked the APIs in libparted didn't provide for this. Without this > support the whole thing is rather uninteresting to us.
Well, libparted is quite limited and immature, I agree. But it has ideas that EVMS doesn't have (and vice versa), so it's useful ("interesting") for us to be looking at each other's code.
I think the way libparted and libreiserfs work together should be interesting to you... it only enables full reiserfs support when libreiserfs is installed. I don't think it's the Final Solution TM... I think we have a problem of how to handle multiple implementions of the same thing. (Which can be useful: for example, reconstructive vs incremental file system resizers, etc.) Anyway, I'd like you to tell me how crap the current libparted <-> libreiserfs thing is, so I can make it better ;)
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