[openbeos] Re: PartitionManager for DriveSetup: why not use Parted?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:33:55 +0200 (MEST)
We never said it wasn't possible to put C++ code in the kernel,
however there are many issues that has to be taken care of.
One can read:
http://be.befaqs.com/aboutbe/benewsletter/volume_III/Issue51.html#Insight
(Hey, thanks to BeGirl who corrected the links in this mirror; it was a
case issue)
En réponse à philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx:
> Bruno, then Axel wrote:
> >> Also it hasn't been proved that BFS can't be dinamically resized.
> >> At least it is possible to do that if it would not mean changing
> >> the block size. It is only that no one coded a tool to do that
> >> yet.
> >
> > Yep, I considered it once, and wouldn't I have to replicate the
> > real thing, maybe I would already have done it.
> > The only trouble-maker with resizing a partition is the block
> > bitmap, which will grow, so that everything behind it (the log
> > starts immediately after the bitmap, then come the indices) have
> > to move until they find a place.
>
> Another great tool would be a cdrecord's makeisofs-like tool for
> OpenBFS.
> I mean, a tool able to generate on-the-fly a all-packed BFS image,
> from one or many existing directories & files.
>
> Whe then could burn BFS images on cd/dvd-rom "on the fly", which would
>
> be really great...
>
> I guess now that the source for [Open]BFS fs are available to everyone,
>
> someone will step in to do this tool... :-)
>
> On using Parted, keep in mind that's a GNU open source software, and
> under GPL license. If someone want to add dynamic OpenBFS resizing
> support,
> it may generate a license issue here.
> [Grrr, did I hate these licenses issues everywhere...]
>
> Off-topic, I don't know we could use C++ classes in R5 kernel-land.
> Did it works only because you don't have to link the C++ code against
> any shared library?
>
> -Philippe
>
>
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