libparted update

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 21:56 -0500, Paul Betts wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:49 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > (Btw, the libparted maintainer is sitting three cubes from me and he
> > promised API so we don't have to go poke in his data structures - which
> > is why we depend on specific versions as we need to verify that the
> > internal struct haven't changed.)
> 
> Maybe I didn't see it, but I don't think there's an API to tell whether
> a particular filesystem supports a capability (like 'create'). Perhaps
> that needs to be added as well?

I think we may want to bypass libparted for mkfs stuff in favor of
calling out to native tools. Am not sure yet, need to talk to the
libparted guy (libparted doesn't even do ext3 atm!).

     David