[Parted-edge] Libraries for file-systems

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 02:23:00PM -0400, Matt Davis wrote:
> Good call.  Although I suspect we would still want to exercise this in
> userspace for portability reasons.  So a direct kernel call might not be the
> best?

How portable is user-mode-linux?

I found this http://umlwin32.sourceforge.net/.  Couldn't find any Hurd port.
Since it would only make light usage of Linux's features (i.e. just file
access), a crappy port of UML should be adequate.

So, I think you could get Parted to invoke its own copy of UML, and have fake
userland programs similar to convertfs that tell UML to do various FS
operations.