linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 5/8] generic/740: enable by default

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Message-ID: <20240625060038.GA1497@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:00:39 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Zorro Lang <zlang@...nel.org>, fstests@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] generic/740: enable by default

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:50:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> It might not be worth it.  One of the reasons for it is that mkfs.ext4
> can be set up to try to pull in libmagic using dlopen, to minimize the
> package dependencies for things like the distribution's installer or
> minimal root setu[s for Docker, et. al.

So mkfs.extN doesn't actually use libblkid for foreign fs detection
like most (all?) other tools?