libblockdev reaches the 1.0 milestone!

[Vratislav Podzimek]

A year ago, I started working on a new storage library for low-level
operations with various types of block devices -- *libblockdev*. Today,
I'm happy to announce that the library reached the **1.0** milestone
which means that it covers all the functionality that has been stated
in the initial goals and it's going to keep the API stable.

Read the blog post I wrote for more information:
http://blog-vpodzime.rhcloud.com/?p=61

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 21.05.2015 20:08, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
>  A year ago, I started working on a new storage library for low-level
>  operations with various types of block devices -- *libblockdev*. Today,
>  I'm happy to announce that the library reached the **1.0** milestone
>  which means that it covers all the functionality that has been stated
>  in the initial goals and it's going to keep the API stable.
>  
>  Read the blog post I wrote for more information:
>  http://blog-vpodzime.rhcloud.com/?p=61
>   
This looks very interesting. I don't see any function to deal with plain
old block devices though just LVM, MD Raid, etc.
Is this correct or am I missing something?

Regards,
  Dennis

[David Lehman]

On 05/25/2015 08:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  On 21.05.2015 20:08, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > A year ago, I started working on a new storage library for low-level
> > operations with various types of block devices -- *libblockdev*. Today,
> > I'm happy to announce that the library reached the **1.0** milestone
> > which means that it covers all the functionality that has been stated
> > in the initial goals and it's going to keep the API stable.
> >
> > Read the blog post I wrote for more information:
> > http://blog-vpodzime.rhcloud.com/?p=61
> >
>
>  This looks very interesting. I don't see any function to deal with plain
>  old block devices though just LVM, MD Raid, etc.
>  Is this correct or am I missing something? 
There is no support yet for partitions. The libblockdev roadmap[1] shows
a target of early August for v2.0 to include partitioning and filesystem
plugins.

David


[1] https://github.com/rhinstaller/libblockdev/blob/master/roadmap.rst

>  Regards,
>     Dennis
>

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 03:56 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  On 21.05.2015 20:08, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
>  > A year ago, I started working on a new storage library for low-level
>  > operations with various types of block devices -- *libblockdev*. Today,
>  > I'm happy to announce that the library reached the **1.0** milestone
>  > which means that it covers all the functionality that has been stated
>  > in the initial goals and it's going to keep the API stable.
>  > 
>  > Read the blog post I wrote for more information:
>  > http://blog-vpodzime.rhcloud.com/?p=61
>  > 
>  
>  This looks very interesting. I don't see any function to deal with plain
>  old block devices though just LVM, MD Raid, etc.
>  Is this correct or am I missing something? 
Do you mean disk partitions? Those are
not covered yet in libblockdev
(are part of the plan for version 2.0), but there's libparted providing
such functionality.

Sorry for such late reply, my filters put your email into a folder I
check only once in a while.

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic