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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [Evms-announce] [ANNOUNCE] EVMS experimental FSIM
From:       Andrew Clausen <clausen () gnu ! org>
Date:       2002-04-01 21:23:06
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:00:23AM -0600, Steve Pratt wrote:
> The main reason is conflicts.  Since all libparted does with XFS,JFS, etc.
> is recognize them, I don't want them to conflict with FSIMs which actually
> have full support.

Yep, I thought would be a problem.  Even so, it seems nice to
have a generic parted_to_evms (ped_file_system_type_get ("ext2"))
-like system, where you don't need to cut&paste any code for
each file system.

> Also, we allow each FSIM to support options on many of the commands.  These
> would be different for each filesystem supported.  I realize the libparted
> did not implement any options for filesystem commands (such as blocksize,
> log size, number of inodes, sparse allocation, etc...) but we feel that
> this is important functionality and since the API set of libparted does not
> support this, we see the libparted FSIM as a stopgap measure until we have
> full support from each of the filesystems.

Fair enough.

> We
> have no plans to do so since we already have all the functionality in our
> default segmgr.

Ah, ok.

Andrew


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