RFE: Add support for DASD partitioning
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 12/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start with the part plugin's use of libfdisk, which the issue says cannot handle DASD partitions, and with the s390 plugin, which is the other candidate home for this work. The issue leaves three options open: switch to libparted (ruled out for licensing), shell out to the fdasd tool, or add DASD support to libfdisk. The first step is a maintainer decision on the approach and the plugin, so no code change is ready to start. Done means that decision is recorded in the issue.
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Description
The part plugin currently supports only MSDOS/MBR and GPT partitions, for s390 support we would like to be able to create partitions on DASD. The part plugin currently uses libfdisk which doesn't DASD partitions so we either need to switch to libparted (which we don't want to for licensing reasons) or use the fdasd command line tool or ask for DASD support to be added to libfdisk (or add it ourselves). We also need to decide whether the support for DASD should be included in the part plugin or in the s390 plugin.
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 137
- Forks
- 64
- Avg merge
- 1d 5h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
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