Note that items with (!) have high priority.
lscpu
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- detect more hypervisors, see 'virt-what' shell script
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/
minix (fsck, mkfs)
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- clean up types -- use ino_t, size_t and ssize_t
libmount (mount/umount)
-----------------------
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 sys-utils/{mount,umount}.c
utils.
- add options to control fstab/mtab mount options usage, something like:
--options-mode={ignore,append,prepend,replace} MNT_OMODE_{IGNORE, ...}
--options-source={fstab,mtab,disable} MNT_OMODE_{FSTAB,MTAB,NOTAB}
--options-source-force MNT_OMODE_FORCE
(all this already supported by libmount)
- support MS_PROPAGATION flags in fstab -- note that kernel assumes that
these flags are not mixed with another mount flags, it means that:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/foo auto ro,shared
has be implemented by two syscalls:
mount("/dev/sda1", "/mnt/foo", "ext4", MS_RDONLY, NULL);
mount(NULL, "/mnt/foo", "none", MS_REMOUNT|MS_SHARED, NULL);
yeah, there is race ;-(
- (!) on systems with regular mtab file it is impossible to umount by "umount
/dev/loop0" if the loop device has been created by "mount -o loop", because
there is backing file in the mtab (instead of the device name).
Now we have all necessary information in /sysfs so it should be possible to
translate the device name to backing file and then search in mtab for the
filename. See loopdev_get_loopfile().
libblkd and libmount
--------------------
- use __attribute__((notnull)) and __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
Note that the code has to be useful for non-gcc compilers too.
partx
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- support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
- (!) add regression tests for partx, addpart and delpart
docs
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- (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?)
- (!) add API documentation to libuuid
lib/tt.c
--------
- allows to sort columns, for example sort lsblk(8) output by SIZE
login-utils:
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- (!) merge newgrp from shadow-utils
libblkid
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- improve DBG() debug macro, see new imeplemntation in libmount/src/mountP.h
- (!) don't use internally blkid_loff_t, rather use off_t, size_t, ssize_t,
stdint.h types and so on...
- add FSSIZE value -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
- (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
fdisk(s)
--------
- add to "First sector" dialog a line with information about available
gaps (free areas) to make it more user friendly if you want to skip
any useless (small) areas between existing partitions.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715114
- 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 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
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"
- 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
start a sequence of questions for some operation, e.g. 'c' to create
partition). The tool tries too hard to keep asking you for valid input. You
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 (probably implement libfdisk ???)
- add GPT support (probably implement libfdisk ???)
misc
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- add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
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exotic requests
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- 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
security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the
way other tools reports those.
