[Parted-edge] Libraries for file-systems

[Otavio Salvador]

"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> writes:

>> To accomplish the above we need to:
>> =0= Research vfat
>> =1= Generalize an api for fat
>> =2= Adjust parted's vfs to accommodate vfat
>> =3= Choose another fs to break-apart
>> =4= GOTO 0
>
> Before touching Vfat we decided to fix the specifications for the VFS.
> To do that we should research Vfat _and_ some other file-system
> libraries that are available. Although we can not use libe2fs (from
> e2fsprogs) due to license issues, we can atleast study its API so that
> we are more aware of the deficiencies of the current VFS and are
> better equipped when we start breaking out the Vfat code.

Debarshi, we both are on same page :-)

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