On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:26:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2008 02:19 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:32:25PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > you'll just be re-inventing blkid. If you don't cache, you'll either
> >
> > Hehe.. I will directly copy code from blkid and vol_id. It's open
> > source. I needn't re-inventing ;-)
>
> Couldn't you just change libblkid to export the probe functions? It
> always makes me cringe when code like this is copied, because I just
> _know_ one or the other will become out of date, and it will take
> twice as much effort to keep them in sync. I'd rather see people
> doing "high value" work instead of watching for and copying patches
> around.
Yes, good point. Frankly, I think about it in last weeks. I have done
work on the low-lever part of libfsprobe -- it shouldn't be a problem
port this code to libblkid. The advantage will be a library that is
usable for udev and backwardly compatible for the current blkid
applications. I will try it...
Karel
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