4 - add command line interface for blkid_probe_filter_types():
6 # blkid -p -o udev --filter-type nofat
8 - (?) we need to ignore cache and config files when the files are writable
9 for non-root users and the library is linked with suid programs
11 - add -<BE|LE> suffix to test images for native-endian filesystems (e.g. swap)
12 and add support for such functionality to tests/ts/blkid/low-probe
14 - do we really need to depend on libuuid? Maybe the default should be
15 use in-tree code rather and link against libuuid -- especially when we
16 need it for uuid_unparse() only.
18 - consolidate "getsize" stuff (see getsize.c and lib/blkdev.c)
20 - cleanup __attribute__ usage
22 - add stripe size / alignment retrival support to libbkid for use
23 with mkfs. This would allow to deprecate libdisk from xfsprogs (1)
24 in favour of a common libblkid.
26 [ -- Christoph Hellwig, 16 Feb 2009 ]
27 (1) http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git;a=tree;f=libdisk;
29 - use fstatat() in blkid__scan_dir()
33 FSSIZE -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
35 SBOFFSET -- superblock offset; offset where SB was detected
36 (swapon requirement to check details from swap header)
39 MAGICLEN -- length of magic string
44 * use off_t instead "long long"
53 * add a new command (unshare, clone, or so...) with all kinds of
55 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/2178
57 * add to lib/blkdev.c code for /proc/partitions parsing -- unfortunate we
58 duplicate this code in many places. The parser has to support unlimited
59 size (or 4096 bytes) of partition name.
61 * partx: copy sun.c, mac.c and dash.c from kpartx
62 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/multipath-tools/.git
64 * mkswap: use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid as a fallback solution for builds
67 * swapon -s -- LABELs support
69 Although mkswap has recently been -L option to create a label nothing appears to
70 have been change to swapon to display said labels. (rh#430386)
72 * use TZ=UTC for tests
74 * add NLS and err.h stuff to schedutils (chrt.c, taskset.c)
76 * add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
77 see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
79 * use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions
81 * mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only)
83 * mount -a (just idea only)
85 Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:04:24 +0300 (MET DST)
86 From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>
88 In the past the right record order could be figured out easily by just
89 checking out fstab (if one knew what to look for) but considering the
90 fastly increasing number of user space file systems and their usage, with
91 their path, library, etc dependencies, it's getting trickier and is a black
92 magic for most users because they simply expect drives to be mounted
93 independently of their order in fstab.
95 One typical, wrongly edited fstab example is:
97 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
98 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
99 /dev/hda3 /usr ext3 defaults 0 0
103 mount -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g ->
104 -> resolves to <path1>/ntfs-3g via a symlink ->
105 -> ntfs-3g requires at least <path2>/libfuse*
107 There are many potential solutions. For example installing everything on
108 the root file system which may be needed for successful mount. But this
109 is not always feasible or practical since we could end up putting almost
110 everything on the root file system in the end.
112 Another idea is an improved mount strategy:
115 try to mount all unmounted entries
116 } while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted)
118 * agetty: use nl_langinfo() for days and months rather than hardcoded
121 * rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls
122 (there are problems with 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel)
126 From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
127 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0200
129 It seems that the kernel has support for minix fs v3
130 (though I have not tried it, just inspected some code when
131 trying to find a mkfs.minix issue).
132 It might be worth a thought implementing v3 support
133 (though I am not really sure how much people us minix fs ;-)
134 This might require some major code cleanup in mkfs.minix.
136 * rtcwake does not support wake from S5/off
137 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449115
139 * add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
140 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
142 Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
143 security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the
144 way other tools reports those.