Re: libparted and libstore

[Neal H Walfield]

> > Thus, it might be reasonable to ask the Parted developers to create
> > a mini library, e.g. libpartread, which contains the desired
> > functionality.
> 
> Well, the reason I was in favor of using Parted was to have a single clean
> code base for the partition reading, and preferably to use Zthe canonical
> sanctioned GNU thing if technical concerns permit.

What is the canonical sanctioned GNU thing?

> The over-fanciness of Parted's library might be completely appropriate to
> use in a "partitionfs" as we have discussed before.

I am not sure that I follow this.  Partitionfs, as currently
implemented, reads the specified partition table and (effectively)
generates an array of stores.  The only difference, with respect to the
partition store type, is that the store proceeds to index the array and
discard everything else.  Thus, as far as I can see, we want to use to
the same code as, one, this guarantees that the partition naming scheme
is the same for both interfaces and, two, we are not actually demanding
anything additional from partitionfs; or do you have other plans?

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