Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2014-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:43:43PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 2/10/2014 4:36 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > Phillip, you've asked me about this a number of times. I think the > > work involved is fairly clear, although I don't seem to have > > managed to make time for it personally. Perhaps, ra

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2014-02-11 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/10/2014 4:36 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > Phillip, you've asked me about this a number of times. I think the > work involved is fairly clear, although I don't seem to have > managed to make time for it personally. Perhaps, rather than > continuing

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2014-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Say Colin, it has been over a year so I thought I would ping on this. > Is this really the only issue that is still preventing the parted3 > transition? If so I think it may be time go go ahead and make the > move rather than continu

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2014-02-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Say Colin, it has been over a year so I thought I would ping on this. Is this really the only issue that is still preventing the parted3 transition? If so I think it may be time go go ahead and make the move rather than continue to block on this, whi

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:22:49PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Not too long ago I was looking at patching gparted to support this and > while it did not seem difficult to process the output of the e2fsprogs > utilities for the progress information, I was wondering why the > various fs utilities do

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:45:41AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 00:11 +, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > > Rather than the Sisyphean task of giving all the appropriate utilities > > machine-parseable progress interface, I instead suggest that we study > > the current progre

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have trouble believing that this is going to be easier than > patching the most common utilities to add an option for a > machine-readable progress indicator. Not too long ago I was looking at patching gparted to support this and while it did not

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 00:11 +, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > Rather than the Sisyphean task of giving all the appropriate utilities > machine-parseable progress interface, I instead suggest that we study > the current progress interfaces and try to identify some common factors > that can be parse

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

2012-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
Package: partman-base Version: 162 Severity: wishlist parted 3.x removes most of the ped_file_system_* entry points that required extensive copies of file system code in libparted, with the exception of some limited support for HFS+ and FAT resizing (see its NEWS file for more details; facilities