Questions, additions, and ideas.

[Harley D. Eades III]

Hello,
        I have been mucking around with an idea with some older cvs sources.  
There more then likely is a good reason why parted doesn't do this already but 
I am going to bring it up anyway.  Parted currently commits changes to disk as 
soon as they happen.  I have implemented with very little change a parted that 
has an 'undo' command and only writes the partition changes to disk when the 
user issues a write.  Basically the changes I have made where the 
passing/returning of args to/from functions instead of passing a PedDevice we 
create only one per disk then pass the PedDisk around altering the struct that 
way.  When ever one needs to access the PedDeivce one uses disk->dev. This 
seems to work very well.  The reader is probably wondering why I changed 
parted.  Well upon request from several GNU/Hurd devs I have start to create an 
interface to libparted that looks and acts exactly like fdisk but with added 
parted bells and whistles.  I have actually coded the fdisk interface 
 and it now holds every fdisk command plus every parted command.  This brings 
up another question is the idea of parted being packaged with three interfaces 
exceed the boundary of possibility? See if not then by default parted would 
compile the traditional parted interface.  Then if the user would want others 
they could add options to the configure script i.e. configure --int=fdisk, 
--int=cfdisk, --int=fdiskfam(both fdisk, cfdisk) or --int=all(fdisk, cfdisk, 
and parted).  This I think along with several others would be a good addition 
for parted.  I have talked with several people and a large number of them say 
they don't use parted because there used to the fdisk interface.  Then I ask 
would they use it if parted looked and felt like fdisk and they always return a 
yes.  Like I said in the subject these a merely ideas, ideas that I have 
working demos of but none the less ideas.  Please comments and feedback are 
what I am requesting so please do.  Thanks again and happy hackin
 g.

hde