On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:05:59AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > It would be nice to add a note
> >
> > "fsck is deprecated in favor of fsck from util-linux-ng"
> >
> > to RELEASE-NOTES in e2fsprogs.
>
> I don't want to deprecate fsck quite yet from e2fsprogs, because there
> are some ext4 issues with fsck (or more accurately, fsck's use of
> vol_id instead of blkid), where it is more convenient if at least for
> distros that are being aggressive with ext4 testing, if we don't try
> to move fsck just now.
That's nothing urgent for me.
No problem to postpone this change until util-linux-ng 2.15 (at end
of this year). I believe ext4 will be pretty stable at this time :-)
> I'd love to try to work on merging the functionality between vol_id
> and blkid, and at some point that's great, but I just don't have the
> time right now to try to coordinate yet another moving part.
I'm already working on vol_id + blkid merge
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=shortlog;h=topic/fsprobe
My plan is follow ideas and code from blkid and add a new low-level API
for udev. That's all.
--
Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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