[systemd-devel] How to implement fsck progress report with systemd and plymouth?

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> I would suggest to leave the parsing of the fsck -C output to fsckd, as
> well as the integration of multiple of these streams. fsckd would then
> only pass one stream of progress bar information to plymouth. The
> handling in Plymouth would be very simple: you'd just add a single
> request which gets a percentage. You show the bar on the first of those
> you get, you hide the bar if the percentage you get is >= 100. And all
> the dirty stuff would stay in fsckd. fsckd would probably just take the
> minimum of the most recent percentage data from all its clients and pass
> that on to plymouth.
Sounds fine.

--Ray