From: Karel Zak Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:14:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20070925091400.GA2806@petra.dvoda.cz> References: <20070919061404.GA1628@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F1CFC0.3070801@redhat.com> <20070920050923.GX32520@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F2D678.4060203@redhat.com> <20070920215427.GL30221@thunk.org> <20070924092539.GC2819@petra.dvoda.cz> <20070924124035.GA4209@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, List util-linux-ng , Kay Sievers To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070924124035.GA4209-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:40:36AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > > > Nope, there isn't much rationale unless we also split out fsck, so > > > > util-linux-ng is open for fsck :-) > > It's something I'm considering, but at the moment I've got some higher > priority (ext4) work that I'm focusing on. That's nothing urgent. This migration shouldn't be so difficult -- I think we should provide at least one release when the util is in both packages -- defaultly disabled in e2fsprogs and enabled in util-linux-ng. It's probably better that trying to synchronize releases of both packages. > What would you think about moving libblkid and the libdisk from > xfsprogs into util-linux-ng? That's things that I've been batting I have no problem with this idea, but I'd like to invite Kay Sievers (udev) to this discussion. I think the best step will be merge libblkid and libvolume_id to the one independent project. There is few technical problems with this idea, but nothing insolvable. Now we duplicate a lot of FS probe code in libblkid, libvolume_id and libdisk. Yes, it's long-term task, but it's good direction (IMHO). Karel -- Karel Zak