From: Karel Zak Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move fsck from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:23:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20080206152310.GF558@petra.dvoda.cz> References: <20080206113426.7833.59505.stgit@sor.suse.de> <20080206125651.GD558@petra.dvoda.cz> <20080206140559.GJ27119@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthias Koenig , util-linux-ng-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080206140559.GJ27119-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:05:59AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > It would be nice to add a note > > > > "fsck is deprecated in favor of fsck from util-linux-ng" > > > > to RELEASE-NOTES in e2fsprogs. > > I don't want to deprecate fsck quite yet from e2fsprogs, because there > are some ext4 issues with fsck (or more accurately, fsck's use of > vol_id instead of blkid), where it is more convenient if at least for > distros that are being aggressive with ext4 testing, if we don't try > to move fsck just now. That's nothing urgent for me. No problem to postpone this change until util-linux-ng 2.15 (at end of this year). I believe ext4 will be pretty stable at this time :-) > I'd love to try to work on merging the functionality between vol_id > and blkid, and at some point that's great, but I just don't have the > time right now to try to coordinate yet another moving part. I'm already working on vol_id + blkid merge http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=shortlog;h=topic/fsprobe My plan is follow ideas and code from blkid and add a new low-level API for udev. That's all. -- Karel Zak