Do you think you could continue this?

[harbourcoleman]

I'm going to build a formatting/partitioning crate, I came along this but it's barely started.

Do you think you'll continue it? I see your github is still pretty active.

[tpdenk]

Definitely. What would you like to see/have?

I would primarily be interested to continue this as a library for ext2, since I use this for my operating system (and it works for reading and writing).

I'm also happy about contributions.

[harbourcoleman]

I would like to contribute as soon as I can understand how they're actually created, I mainly need the ext4 part. I am making a linux OS and was interested in formatting things with rust.

The package manager "nova" has nova strap but right now it relies on the user formatting it or using mkfs.ext4 with Command::new

If you're interested in the OS I'm working on, it's called Hypernova OS. I am interested in yours as well.

[harbourcoleman]

In this future, btrfs would be really cool. I'm sure making Linux compliant ones with Rust should be possible. I noticed theres basically no crates for doing any of this, any search lead me back to you 😂

[tpdenk]

What about https://github.com/kennystrawnmusic/btrfs-no-std (haven't looked into it, licensing can be tricky)?

btrfs is a little too big for me with the current amount of time I have. ext4 maybe. But I can definitely provide support in case you want to implement either one.

If/when you contribute, please make sure you get your information from sources that are appropriately licensed for use with this project.

[harbourcoleman]

Wdym get my information from? No one can control where I learn something from...