Note that items with (!) have high priority. bash completion --------------- - file per command in shel-completion/bash/ - use $(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion)/util-linux/ as a destination install directory wipefs ------ - generate /root/wipefs--.bak with wiped bytes, so after mistake user can use dd(1) to restore erased stuff lscpu ----- - detect more hypervisors, see 'virt-what' shell script http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/ minix (fsck, mkfs) ------------------ - 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) - (!) 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(). partx ----- - support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used. - (!) add regression tests for partx, addpart and delpart docs ---- - (!) 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: ----------- - consolidate newgrp(1) * we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils) * the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality? * maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask fro group password in su --group too. * note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log. libblkid -------- - 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. misc ---- - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132 --------------- exotic requests --------------- - 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.