[haiku-development] Re: Format of the initialization parameter string, BFSAddOn

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:51:19 +0200

On 2008-04-23 at 15:46:34 [+0200], Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> That's what I suggested Marco in the first place.
> 
> There could be the utility Help function that gets displayed with the 
> following
> 
> mkfs --help
> 
> which would simply says that in order to gets the specifics file
> system help all he has to do is
> 
> mkfs -t befs --help
> mkfs -t vfat --help
> 
> Then the utility calls the related ::Help() addon functions. As Marco 
> pointed
> out though, this method would be used only by the CLI, and not by
> DriverSetup for example.

We don't have an interface in the userland FS add-ons yet, but that can 
surely be done. Until that has been done the three options that are 
currently supported by BFS could just be listed in the help text (cf. 
src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/bfs_disk_system.cpp). We can change 
that later.

CU, Ingo

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