Hi! Last year I did some research how Windows and Linux tools handle FAT labels (boot sector vs root directory) and proposed some unification. More in thread: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2640891.html My proposed change for manipulating with FAT labels is now implemented in util-linux v2.33, prepared new mtools version, and also in dosfstools git (unreleased) https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2645732.html Project dosfstools contains de-facto standard Linux userspace tools for FAT filesystems (mkfs.fat, fsck.fat, fatlabel) and so it is quite important because of high usage of FAT. But there was no new release of dosfstools since Jan 2017 and for more then month I'm unsuccessfully try to contact maintainer of dosfstools project (Andreas) about future of project itself. I do not know what happened, if either Andreas do not have time or something else... So does somebody know what is state of dosfstools project? Also there are lot of proposed changes (with patches) for this project https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pulls and also more reported bugs https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues If Andreas does not have time, can somebody else at least look at pull requests and do some code review? I have some other unpublished/unfinished changes for dosfstools, but I do not know now if it make sense to invest more time in this project when maintainer does not respond... if this project is active or going to be dead... If dosfstools is going to be inactive/dead, there is still mtools project with provides FAT tools too and maintainer of it is now preparing new bugfix version. So at least some alternative exists. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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