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Note that items with (!) have high priority.
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http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg04453.html
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- add --color to colorize err and panic messages
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- clean up types -- use ino_t, size_t and ssize_t
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libmount (mount/umount)
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Note that the old mount/[u]mount.c code is in MAINTENANCE MODE only. All new
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features should be implemented to libmount or to the new mount/umount
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implementation in the libmount/samples/ directory.
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- (!) on systems with regular mtab file it is impossible to umount by "umount
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/dev/loop0" if the loop device has been created by "mount -o loop", because
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there is backing file in the mtab (instead of the device name).
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Now we have all necessary information in /sysfs so it should be possible to
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translate the device name to backing file and then search in mtab for the
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filename. See loopdev_get_loopfile().
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- (!!!) add libmount based umount(8) (see libmount/samples/ where is new mount(8)
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- (!) add --source and --target options to specify device and mountpoint
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/dev/sda1 /foo auto defaults 0 0
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/foo /mnt auto bind 0 0
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mount -o remount,ro /foo
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... this command is ambiguous. It would be better to have a way how specify
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mount --target /foo -o remount,ro
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Note that findmnt(8) already supports --target and --source.
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- add ---target-prefix option to specify prefix for mountpoints
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LIBMOUNT_FSTAB=/etc/fstab.foo mount -a --target-prefix=$FOO_ROOT
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to create a new hierarchy of filesystems at $FOO_ROOT.
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# umount LABEL=mylabel
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- (!!!) use new lib/sysfs.c code for losetup(8), the new implementation should
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be moved to sys-utils/losetup.c.
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- (!!!) add support for LOOP_CTL_ ioctls (probably will be in kernel 3.1 or 3.2)
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- use __attribute__((notnull)) and __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
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Note that the code has to be usefull for non-gcc compilers too.
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- (!) add support loop devices:
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partx -a /path/file.img
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* associate the file with loop device (use lib/loopdev.c)
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* map partitions by BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION
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- support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
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- (!) add regression tests for partx, addpart and delpart
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- (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?)
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- (!) add API documentation to libuuid
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- add Documentation/ directory with:
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- move README.devel to the Documentation/
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- use non-recursive build-sys, see
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3297
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- we use something like
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AC_ARG_ENABLE(...., enable_foo=check)
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AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_LIBMOUNT, test "x$build_foo" = xyes)
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AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_FOO, test "x$build_foo" = xyes)
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for Linux-only utils in configure.ac. It would be nice to set all defaults
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for all $enable_ variables at begin of the configure script according to
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for all "$enable_" variables at the begin of the configure script according to
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$linux_os. Something like:
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if test "x$linux_os" = xno
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The configure.ac has to care about dependence between utils and librares and
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enable BUILD_<utilname>.
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- remove the lib/fsprobe.c wrapper for libblkid used in mount and fsck. Use
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everywhere libblkid from util-linux only.
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- update ./configure script
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- allows to sort columns, for example sort lsblk(8) output by SIZE
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- use err() and warn() macros rather than fprintf(stderr, ...)
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- don't use ioclts if sysfs supports loop attributes (since 2.6.37,
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block/loopN/loop/* files)
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- don't open loopdev in looplist_next(), check if /sys/block/loopN/loop
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exists and returns ll.name rather than file descriptor
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- add sysfs based version of show_loop() and use it for non-root users
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- add lib/sysfs.c with functions that read block device attributes from /sys.
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For more details see devno.c from libblkid, lsblk.c and lomount.c.
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- allows to sort columns, for example sort lsblk(8) output by SIZE
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- remove strerrr() from debug messages (use %m) to make BLKID_DEBUG= output
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- (!) don't use internally blkid_loff_t, rather use off_t, size_t, ssize_t,
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stdint.h types and so on...
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- add -<BE|LE> suffix to test images for native-endian filesystems (e.g. swap)
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and add support for such functionality to tests/ts/blkid/low-probe
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- add FSSIZE value -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
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- add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
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- add something like "blkid --list-known" to list all supported filesystems/raids
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- add a new option (-r) that allows to print removable block devices that
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are missing in /proc/partitions, see blkid_probe_all_removable().
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- review code and make it more simple for normal console (see mingetty)
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- merge functionality from unmaintained mingetty package to agetty
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- (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
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- (!!!) support PARTUUID= tag
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* the partitions probing is already supported by low-level part of the
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library, but it's necessary add support for this tag also to high-level
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blkid_cache and blkid_evaluate_* APIs
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* add blkid -P <PARTUUID>
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* add PARTUUID to wipefs output
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one magic string the FS is still detectable by libblkid. We have to inform
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users that there is more valid magic string for the same FS.
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- (!!!) allow to wipe partition tables
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* sfdisk has to use rpmatch() for answers to y/n questions
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- add "move end" command to move end of the last primary/extended partition.
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This feature seems very attractive to users who resizing their disks
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(for example in virtual machines).
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- sfdisk has to use rpmatch() for answers to y/n questions
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(e.g. "Are you satisfied with this? [ynq]")
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* sfdisk rounds to cylinders is -uM (megabyte units) is specified, this is
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- sfdisk rounds to cylinders is -uM (megabyte units) is specified, this is
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pretty stupid feature. It has to round to sectors if -uS or -uM is specified.
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* Sun label support is completely useless for large disks, it uses number of
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- Sun label support is completely useless for large disks, it uses number of
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cylinders from on-disk-label where the geometry is stored by int16 values.
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It seems better to completely ignore this stuff from the label and always
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use geometry + BLKGETSIZE64 from kernel.
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* use off_t instead "long long"
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- use off_t instead "long long"
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* catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu.
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- catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu.
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From Red Hat bugzilla #545488:
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While using fdisk normally, if you accidentally pressed the wrong button (to
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can't provide a blank or invalid input to get it to break out of the current
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dialog sequence and get back to the main menu.
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* fdisk/* refactoring
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- fdisk/* refactoring (probably implement libfdisk ???)
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* add GPT support (probably implement libfdisk)
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- add GPT support (probably implement libfdisk ???)
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- move all mountpoints to the newroot (there are hardcoded /proc /sys and /dev paths now)
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- add --dont-move[=<list of dirs>] options
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* use ngettext() for strings with plurals, for example
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#define P_(id, id_plural, n) ngettext(id, id_plural, n)
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printf(P_("%d used sector",
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"%d used sectors", sectors),
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* use something better than gtk-doc (doxyden?)
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* use TZ=UTC and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for tests
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* add NLS and err.h stuff to schedutils (chrt.c, taskset.c)
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* add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
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- use TZ=UTC and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for tests
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- add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
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see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
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* use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions
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* make chrt, taskset, ... threads aware. Currently these utils work with
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group leader (master thread) and don't propagate requested changes to
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the whole group of threads. It meas add a new option (e.g. -t):
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chrt <prio> <pid> # master thread only
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chrt -t <prio> <pid> # whole group of threads
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Note that we need to scan /proc and call ched_set{scheduler,affinity}
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syscalls for all individual threads.
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# mount LABEL=mylabel
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# umount LABEL=mylabel
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* mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only)
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* mount -a (just idea only)
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- use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions
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- mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only)
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- mount -a (just idea only)
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:04:24 +0300 (MET DST)
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From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>
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try to mount all unmounted entries
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} while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted)
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* rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls
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- rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls
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(there are problems with 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel)
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From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0200
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It seems that the kernel has support for minix fs v3
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(though I have not tried it, just inspected some code when
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trying to find a mkfs.minix issue).
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It might be worth a thought implementing v3 support
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(though I am not really sure how much people us minix fs ;-)
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This might require some major code cleanup in mkfs.minix.
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* add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
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- add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
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Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
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removed
TODO
