+libblkid
+--------
- * add to lib/blkdev.c code for /proc/partitions parsing -- unfortunate we
- duplicate this code in many places. The parser has to support unlimited
- size (or 4096 bytes) of partition name.
+ - add command line interface for blkid_probe_filter_types():
- * fdisk/* -- use off_t instead "long long"
+ # blkid -p -o udev --filter-type nofat
- * mkswap: use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid as a fallback solution for builds
- without libuuid
+ - (?) we need to ignore cache and config files when the files are writable
+ for non-root users and the library is linked with suid programs
- * add --without-libuuid to disable mkswap(8) and libblkid linking against
- libuuid
+ - 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
- * use TZ=UTC for tests
+ - do we really need to depend on libuuid? Maybe the default should be
+ use in-tree code rather and link against libuuid -- especially when we
+ need it for uuid_unparse() only.
- * add NLS and err.h stuff to schedutils (chrt.c, taskset.c)
+ - consolidate "getsize" stuff (see getsize.c and lib/blkdev.c)
- * move libblkid to util-linux-ng (see the topic/blkid branch)
+ - cleanup __attribute__ usage
- * add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
- see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
+ - add stripe size / alignment retrival support to libbkid for use
+ with mkfs. This would allow to deprecate libdisk from xfsprogs (1)
+ in favour of a common libblkid.
+
+ [ -- Christoph Hellwig, 16 Feb 2009 ]
+ (1) http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git;a=tree;f=libdisk;
+
+ - use fstatat() in blkid__scan_dir()
+
+ - add values:
+
+ FSSIZE -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
+
+ SBOFFSET -- superblock offset; offset where SB was detected
+ (swapon requirement to check details from swap header)
+
+ MAGIC -- magic string
+ MAGICLEN -- length of magic string
+
+fdisk(s)
+--------
+
+ * use off_t instead "long long"
+
+ * fdisk/* refactoring
+
+ * add GPT support
+
+misc
+----
+
+ * add a new command (unshare, clone, or so...) with all kinds of
+ clone(2) options.
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/2178
+
+ * add to lib/blkdev.c code for /proc/partitions parsing -- unfortunate we
+ duplicate this code in many places. The parser has to support unlimited
+ size (or 4096 bytes) of partition name.
* partx: copy sun.c, mac.c and dash.c from kpartx
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/multipath-tools/.git
- It would be nice to merge kpartx and partx to the one project. We duplicate
- a lot of code (include losetup code in kpartx).
+ * mkswap: use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid as a fallback solution for builds
+ without libuuid
* 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 canonicalize_file_name() when exist in glibc (see lib/canonicalize.v)
+ * use TZ=UTC for tests
- * try improve compilation against others libc:
- - klibc
- - ???
+ * 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)
+++ /dev/null
-
- TODO
- ----
-
- - add command line interface for blkid_probe_filter_types():
-
- # blkid -p -o udev --filter-type nofat
-
- - (?) we need to ignore cache and config files when the files are writable
- for non-root users and the library is linked with suid programs
-
- - 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
-
- - do we really need to depend on libuuid? Maybe the default should be
- use in-tree code rather and link against libuuid -- especially when we
- need it for uuid_unparse() only.
-
- - consolidate "getsize" stuff (see getsize.c and lib/blkdev.c)
-
- - cleanup __attribute__ usage
-
- - add stripe size / alignment retrival support to libbkid for use
- with mkfs. This would allow to deprecate libdisk from xfsprogs (1)
- in favour of a common libblkid.
-
- [ -- Christoph Hellwig, 16 Feb 2009 ]
- (1) http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git;a=tree;f=libdisk;
-
- [ .. or move whole libdisk to util-linux-ng and merge partx code to the
- library -- kzak ]
-
- - use /sys/block/<devname>/dm/name rather than scan /dev/mapper/ for the name
- (see devname.c: probe_one()). The sysfs entry has been introduced by kernel
- patch 784aae735d9b0bba3f8b9faef4c8b30df3bf0128.
-
- - in lib/fsprobe.c wrapper use blkid_parse_tag_string() rather than a local
- parser implementation
-
- - use fstatat() in blkid__scan_dir()
-
- - add evaluate.c: blkid_evaluate_tag_to_buffer() (and add lib/canonicalize.c:
- canonicalize_path_to_buffer())
-
- - add values:
-
- FSSIZE -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
-
- SBOFFSET -- superblock offset; offset where SB was detected
- (swapon requirement to check details from swap header)
-
- MAGIC -- magic string
- MAGICLEN -- length of magic string
-