linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move fsck from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng

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Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:56:51 +0100
From:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:	Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@...e.de>
Cc:	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move fsck from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> Here is another attempt to move fsck over to the util-linux-ng
> tree. A similar attempt has been done previously by Christoph
> Hellwig some time ago.

Thanks (also thanks to Christoph)!

I didn't forget about this task. It's still in my TODO list.

It seems that the fsck wrapper in e2fsprogs is optional
(--enable-fsck) so we needn't any extra change to e2fsprogs.

It would be nice to add a note

    "fsck is deprecated in favor of fsck from util-linux-ng"

to RELEASE-NOTES in e2fsprogs.

> Patch 1 is the initial move with minor adjustments for the
> build system.
> Patch 2 adds support for the fsprobe library wrapper.

What about to move the fsprobe library wrapper to lib/ ?

> Patch 3 adds a new option which has been in Suse for some
> time to ignore mounted filesystems.

We also need a --disable-fsck configure option.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@...hat.com>
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