| libblkid |
| -------- |
| |
| - add command line interface for blkid_probe_filter_types(): |
| |
| # blkid -p -o udev --filter-type nofat |
| |
| - add -<BE|LE> suffix to test images for native-endian filesystems (e.g. swap) |
| and add support for such functionality to tests/ts/blkid/low-probe |
| |
| - consolidate "getsize" stuff (see getsize.c and lib/blkdev.c) |
| |
| - add values: |
| |
| FSSIZE -- filesystem size (klibc requirement) |
| |
| - add reference counters to the binary interfaces. Currently, all chain |
| data are allocated in blkid_probe and cannot be used independently on |
| the probing stuff. |
| |
| blkid_topology tp = blkdi_probe_get_topology(pr) |
| |
| blkid_ref(tp); |
| ... |
| blkid_unref(tp); |
| |
| fdisk(s) |
| -------- |
| |
| * use off_t instead "long long" |
| |
| * catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu. |
| From Red Hat bugzilla #545488: |
| |
| While using fdisk normally, if you accidentally pressed the wrong button (to |
| start a sequence of questions for some operation, e.g. 'c' to create |
| partition). The tool tries too hard to keep asking you for valid input. You |
| can't provide a blank or invalid input to get it to break out of the current |
| dialog sequence and get back to the main menu. |
| |
| * fdisk/* refactoring |
| |
| * add GPT support |
| |
| misc |
| ---- |
| |
| * use ngettext() for strings with plurals, for example |
| |
| /* include/nls.h */ |
| #define P_(id, id_plural, n) ngettext(id, id_plural, n) |
| |
| printf(P_("%d used sector", |
| "%d used sectors", sectors), |
| sectors); |
| |
| * check for program_invocation_short_name in ./configure.ac and add |
| lib/progname.c fallback for libc without this feature (for example |
| use the 1st field from /proc/#/cmdline) |
| |
| * use something better than gtk-doc (doxyden?) |
| |
| * partx: copy sun.c, mac.c and dash.c from kpartx |
| git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/multipath-tools/.git |
| |
| * swapon -s -- LABELs support |
| |
| Although mkswap has recently been -L option to create a label nothing appears to |
| have been change to swapon to display said labels. (rh#430386) |
| |
| * use TZ=UTC for tests |
| |
| * add NLS and err.h stuff to schedutils (chrt.c, taskset.c) |
| |
| * add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock, |
| see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132 |
| |
| * use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions |
| |
| * mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only) |
| |
| * mount -a (just idea only) |
| |
| Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:04:24 +0300 (MET DST) |
| From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu> |
| |
| In the past the right record order could be figured out easily by just |
| checking out fstab (if one knew what to look for) but considering the |
| fastly increasing number of user space file systems and their usage, with |
| their path, library, etc dependencies, it's getting trickier and is a black |
| magic for most users because they simply expect drives to be mounted |
| independently of their order in fstab. |
| |
| One typical, wrongly edited fstab example is: |
| |
| /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 |
| /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 |
| /dev/hda3 /usr ext3 defaults 0 0 |
| |
| The events: |
| |
| mount -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> |
| -> resolves to <path1>/ntfs-3g via a symlink -> |
| -> ntfs-3g requires at least <path2>/libfuse* |
| |
| There are many potential solutions. For example installing everything on |
| the root file system which may be needed for successful mount. But this |
| is not always feasible or practical since we could end up putting almost |
| everything on the root file system in the end. |
| |
| Another idea is an improved mount strategy: |
| |
| do { |
| try to mount all unmounted entries |
| } while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted) |
| |
| * agetty: use nl_langinfo() for days and months rather than hardcoded |
| English names. |
| |
| * rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls |
| (there are problems with 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel) |
| |
| * minix v3 |
| |
| From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de> |
| Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0200 |
| |
| It seems that the kernel has support for minix fs v3 |
| (though I have not tried it, just inspected some code when |
| trying to find a mkfs.minix issue). |
| It might be worth a thought implementing v3 support |
| (though I am not really sure how much people us minix fs ;-) |
| This might require some major code cleanup in mkfs.minix. |
| |
| * rtcwake does not support wake from S5/off |
| http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449115 |
| |
| * add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility |
| http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342 |
| |
| Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective |
| security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the |
| way other tools reports those. |
| |
| |
