-lscpu
------
-
- - add -o <list> to speficy output columns for -p options.
- (the same thing we use for findmnt, lsblk, ...)
+ Note that items with (!) have high priority.
dmesg
-----
- - add -f (follow) option
+ - add --follow option
http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg04453.html
-mount
------
-
- (features for new libmount based implemenation)
+ - add --color to colorize err and panic messages
- - add support for "x-" namespace for mount options. All options with "x-"
- prefix should be ignored.
+libmount (mount/umount)
+-----------------------
- For example x-systemd=, x-upstart-foo, x-libmount-debug=0xffff, ...
+ Note that the old mount/[u]mount.c code is in MAINTENANCE MODE only. All new
+ features should be implemented to libmount or to the new mount/umount
+ implementation in the libmount/samples/ directory.
- It's definitely better to have a generic way how ignore some options than
- use comment= for all things.
+ - (!!!) add libmount based umount(8) (see libmount/samples/ where is new mount(8)
+ implementation.
- - add --source and --target options to specify device and mountpoint
+ - (!) add --source and --target options to specify device and mountpoint
fstab:
/dev/sda1 /foo auto defaults 0 0
to create a new hierarchy of filesystems at $FOO_ROOT.
+ - umount by label:
+ # mount LABEL=mylabel
+ # umount LABEL=mylabel
+
+losetup
+-------
+
+ - (!!!) use new lib/sysfs.c code for losetup(8), the new implementation should
+ be moved to sys-utils/losetup.c.
+
+ - (!!!) add support for LOOP_CTL_ ioctls (probably will be in kernel 3.1 or 3.2)
+
+libblkd and libmountL
+----------------------------
+
+ - use __attribute__((notnull)) and __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+ Note that the code has to be usefull for non-gcc compilers too.
+
partx
-----
- - add support loop devices:
+ - (!) add support loop devices:
partx -a /path/file.img
- support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
- - add regression tests for partx, addpart and delpart
+ - (!) add regression tests for partx, addpart and delpart
+
+
+docs
+----
+
+ - (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?)
+
+ - (!) add API documentation to libuuid
+ - add Documentation/ directory with:
+ - man page template
+ - usage() HOW-TO
+ - move README.devel to the Documentation/
build-sys
--------
+ - use non-recursive build-sys, see
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3297
+
- we use something like
AC_ARG_ENABLE(...., enable_foo=check)
build_foo=no
fi
fi
- AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_LIBMOUNT, test "x$build_foo" = xyes)
+ AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_FOO, test "x$build_foo" = xyes)
for Linux-only utils in configure.ac. It would be nice to set all defaults
for all "$enable_" variables at the begin of the configure script according to
- use err() and warn() macros rather than fprintf(stderr, ...)
-losetup
--------
-
- - don't use ioclts if sysfs supports loop attributes (since 2.6.37,
- block/loopN/loop/* files)
-
- - don't open loopdev in looplist_next(), check if /sys/block/loopN/loop
- exists and returns ll.name rather than file descriptor
-
- - add sysfs based version of show_loop() and use it for non-root users
-
- - move all loopdev code to libmount
-
-
-shlib (libblkd and libmount):
-----------------------------
-
- - use __attribute__((notnull)) and __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
- Note that the code has to be usefull for non-gcc compilers too.
-
libblkid
--------
- add FSSIZE value -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
- - add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
+ - (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
- - support PARTUUID= tag
+ - (!!!) support PARTUUID= tag
* the partitions probing is already supported by low-level part of the
library, but it's necessary add support for this tag also to high-level
- (blkid_cache) API.
+ blkid_cache and blkid_evaluate_* APIs
* add blkid -P <PARTUUID>
one magic string the FS is still detectable by libblkid. We have to inform
users that there is more valid magic string for the same FS.
+ - (!!!) allow to wipe partition tables
+
fdisk(s)
--------
- * add "move end" command to move end of the last primary/extended partition.
+ - add "move end" command to move end of the last primary/extended partition.
This feature seems very attractive to users who resizing their disks
(for example in virtual machines).
- * sfdisk has to use rpmatch() for answers to y/n questions
+ - sfdisk has to use rpmatch() for answers to y/n questions
(e.g. "Are you satisfied with this? [ynq]")
- * sfdisk rounds to cylinders is -uM (megabyte units) is specified, this is
+ - sfdisk rounds to cylinders is -uM (megabyte units) is specified, this is
pretty stupid feature. It has to round to sectors if -uS or -uM is specified.
- * Sun label support is completely useless for large disks, it uses number of
+ - Sun label support is completely useless for large disks, it uses number of
cylinders from on-disk-label where the geometry is stored by int16 values.
It seems better to completely ignore this stuff from the label and always
use geometry + BLKGETSIZE64 from kernel.
- * use off_t instead "long long"
+ - use off_t instead "long long"
- * catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu.
+ - catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu.
From Red Hat bugzilla #545488:
While using fdisk normally, if you accidentally pressed the wrong button (to
can't provide a blank or invalid input to get it to break out of the current
dialog sequence and get back to the main menu.
- * fdisk/* refactoring
+ - fdisk/* refactoring (probably implement libfdisk ???)
- * add GPT support (probably implement libfdisk)
+ - add GPT support (probably implement libfdisk ???)
misc
----
- * switch_root:
+ - switch_root:
- move all mountpoints to the newroot (there are hardcoded /proc /sys and /dev paths now)
- add --dont-move[=<list of dirs>] options
- * use ngettext() for strings with plurals, for example
+ - use ngettext() for strings with plurals, for example
/* include/nls.h */
#define P_(id, id_plural, n) ngettext(id, id_plural, n)
"%d used sectors", sectors),
sectors);
- * use something better than gtk-doc (doxyden?)
-
- * use TZ=UTC and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for tests
+ - use TZ=UTC and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for tests
- * add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
+ - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
- * use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions
-
- * umount by label:
- # mount LABEL=mylabel
- # umount LABEL=mylabel
+ - use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions
---------------
exotic requests
---------------
- * mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only)
+ - mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only)
- * mount -a (just idea only)
+ - mount -a (just idea only)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:04:24 +0300 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>
try to mount all unmounted entries
} while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted)
- * rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls
+ - rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls
(there are problems with 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel)
- * minix v3
-
- From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0200
-
- It seems that the kernel has support for minix fs v3
- (though I have not tried it, just inspected some code when
- trying to find a mkfs.minix issue).
- It might be worth a thought implementing v3 support
- (though I am not really sure how much people us minix fs ;-)
- This might require some major code cleanup in mkfs.minix.
- * add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
+ - add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
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