Release time again for libblockdev and udisks!

A new month has come and that means new releases of libblockdev and UDisks2 have come too. We are trying to stick to the golden rule of successful open-source projects – “Release early, release often.” – and even if there are no major changes and no new major features, we do regular releases every month. Usually the target date is the end of the month which then in reality means a new release is done at the beginning of the month that follows. And that is exactly what happened this time too. libblockdev-2.15 was released on December 1st and UDisks-2.7.5 on December 4th.

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Talk about UDisks2

A talk about UDisks2 was given at the OpenAlt 2017 conference in Brno, Czech Republic on November 5th 2017. It summarizes the history and evolution of the UDisks project and provides an insight into the development and big changes that have been happening in the last two years.

UDisks 2.7.2 released

A new upstream version of UDisks2 was released on Thursday (July 3rd) — version 2.7.2. This is only a minor release and contains mostly bug fixes, but it has some new features, mostly for working with filesystems and partitions.

UDisks 2.7.0 released

A new upstream version of UDisks2 was released on Friday (June 2nd) — version 2.7.0. People following the recent development of UDisks2 and our recent blog posts [1] [2] should know that this is a big version bump which can only mean one thing: the pull request changing UDisks to use libblockdev where possible was merged! Which is almost 100 commits with changes.

UDisks to build on libblockdev!?

As a recent blog post mentioned, there is a pull request for UDisks proposing the master-libblockdev branch to be merged into master. What would that mean? master-libblockdev is a parallel branch we have been working on in the last few months which has custom code in UDisks replaced by calls of the libblockdev library where possible. So for things like creating partitions, setting up MD RAID, LVM, etc. it’s not using the CLI tools, but instead calls libblockdev functions.

Reporting and monitoring storage actions

Two recent blog posts are focusing on reporting and monitoring of storage events related to failures, recoveries and in general device state changes. However, there are other things happening to storage. The storage configuration is from time to time changed either by administrator(s) or automatically as a reaction to some trigger. And there are components of the system, together with its users, that could/would benefit from getting the information about such changes.

Storaged merged with UDisks, new releases 2.6.4 and 2.6.5

Quite a lot has changed since our last blogpost about the storaged project. The biggest news is that we are no longer working on Storaged. We are now “again” working on UDisks¹.

Storaged originally started as a fork of udisks project in 2015 and had a lot of attention and development since then. Storaged even replaced UDisks in Fedora 25 providing backwards compatible API and new features.