Re: libdisk

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

Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Neither did I when I started the work on the disk library, wasn't that
> complicated when I started to understand it. :)
>
> There are some flaws in the API which needs to be sorted out, school has taken a
> lot more time than I thought the last months, but one more week and my holliday
> is over me. I will look over the code again and try to get it updated and
> rewritten to be workable when working with it.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> If you want to give me a hand that would be great.

Will do. I guess I'll talk to you about it on IRC then :)

--Devon