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From: Andrew C. <cl...@gn...> - 2002-12-10 21:52:09
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:43:43PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > I have recently committed all (hopefully all) of the renames necessary to > get a proper stable API for the ntfs library. Please everyone have a look > through the library (header files would be sufficient to give an idea of > what functions are exported) and let me know what you think and if there > is anything that still needs renaming or changing before the final > release. It looks like a good start :) OTOH, I'd like to see lots of improvements: * it should be possible for users of libntfs to pass their own IO abstraction (rather than using the kernel's or file system's) * error handling doesn't look to good :/ * progress meters? * all the functionality of userland tools should be in libntfs, or perhaps libntfs-mkfs, etc. (This is already on your TODO :) I think the first 3 items will change lots of code, and API entry points. Eg: in libparted, I implemented progress meters by having all "big" functions accepting an extra parameter, "PedTimer* timer". I think reiser4's (as opposed to reiser3's!) userland implementation is fantastic... take a look! www.namesys.com/snapshots/2002.12.04 Is it possible to make libntfs look like that? Is there any need to "stabilize" an API, or can you just freeze what you have now, and work on a new, radically different API for later? I think I'll have time to help with this stuff :) (Uni vacation :) Cheers, Andrew |
