On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:37:24AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > vol_id in the udev package is much better than blkid, as it handles more > file system types, and is easier to intregrate into other programs and > scripts (it's also availble as a library.) I would recommend it > instead. For the record, blkid is also available as a library, and it is what is used by mount and fsck to support. Blkid also has the advantage that it doesn't require a modern 2.6 kernel to function (since it isn't dependent on udev) in order to find the device where a particular filesystem with a particular label or UUID. Blkid is available on pretty much all distributions since it's been part of e2fsprogs since 2002 or so; udev is used available on all reasonably modern distro's using a 2.6 kernel. Finally, the number of filesystem types handled by the two really aren't all that different; certainly all of the major filesystem types are covered by both libraries/programs. Regards, - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
