ndisk - declarative disk management

Describe a systems disk partitioning, raid, encryption, filesystems, or volumes once in json (or nix, coming "soon"), deploy repeatably.

How it (will) work:

Development TODO (this list is not exhaustive):

• Create dev environment
• Create vm testing environment
• Define JSON format
• Create library which can ingest json disk descriptions and turn it into a disk plan
• Create rust wrappers for the libs that know how to partition, filesystem formatetc
  • libparted
  • libcryptsetup
  • mdadm (?)
  • mkfs.* (?)
• Connect the plan to the libs

Heavily inspired by disko! <3

Why ndisk instead of disko:

• currently, disko is essentially a big fancy bash templeter. this makes maintaining it difficult, and results in odd bugs. the maintainers are looking to replace the existing templating system with some other language see https://github.com/nix-community/disko
  • we hope the work here can eventually be leveraged by the disko project
• with ndisk we hope to leverage existing c libraries (ex libparted) by wrapping them in rust, rather than needing to shell out for each operation.