Re: libdisk

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20041213 08:12], Robert Garrett (rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > The recent removal of sysinstall, reminded me of a discussion that 
> > basically stated the only consumer of libdisk was sysinstall.
> > I am doing a makworld now with libdisk disabled, and if everything is
> > clean will remove it, provided there are no objections.
>
>
> There is some work going on with a libdisk new/next generation, not sure if
> that updates this code or if it is a completely new work.

This was Eirik's work and it was completely new work. We were going to 
use it for the installer, but it wasn't necessary (the livecd platform 
had all the necessary disk tools), so its development has been stalled. 
I personally wouldn't mind seeing it be developed further; it'd be nice 
to have serious partitioning software. I'd help but I don't know 
anything about harddrive geometry, partitions, filesystems, and how they 
work together.

If someone wants to give me a crash course, I'll see what I can do, but 
I fear I'll cause a few crashes as well.

Kind regards,

Devon H. O'Dell