linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if present

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1405061451230.2255@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 6 May 2014 14:52:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if
 present

On Tue, 6 May 2014, Karel Zak wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:20:31 +0200
> From: Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
>     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if
>     present
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:20:56AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Fair enough. But we should still make the use of system libblkid by
> > > default if you do not have any objections.
> > 
> > What I want to do is test to see if there is a system libblkid
> > available at all, and if so, use it by default.  I want to be able to
> > use the internal libblkid for development testing purposes, but the
> > goal is that when Andreas builds on MacOS, it should use the internal
> > libblkid by default (since there is no system blkid), but on Linux
> > systems, we should use the system blkid by default in the 1.43 branch.
> 
> BTW, util-linux is not Linux only (although code portability is bonus
> rather than a primary goal :-). We have BSD, Solaris and GNU Hurd users. 
> 
> The plan for the next release (v2.25) is to support libs-only builds
> (for example build and install libblkid and libuuid, but nothing
> else).
> 
>     Karel

Nice, so we're a step further to actually get rid of the libblkid in
e2fsprogs tree ? :)

-Lukas