On Feb 7, 2008 2:41 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:37:43AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > Care to explain what ext4 development has to do with the generic > > fsck program? I don''t see any convincing reason not to move that > > now. > > Fsck and mount (and especially mount) needs to be linked against the > very latest blkid library in order to make sure things work, and when > we spread out packages across the various different packages, it means > updating things to assure correct functionality is that much harder. > > It also means getting the right ext4 detection routines into vol_id, > and in the past I've had real problems getting patches that fix real > bugs in vol_id past you, and I'm just too busy right now to deal with > that right now. Sorry, some major distrost don't use blkid at all, so this does not apply at all to the fact that fsck should not be part of util-linux now. Again provide facts and stop complaining about the useless probe-reorder patches that didn't make it into libvolume_id for good reason. Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
