From: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers-tD+1rO4QERM@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move fsck from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:37:43 +0100
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On Feb 6, 2008 3:05 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org> 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.

Care to explain what ext4 development has to do with the generic fsck program?
I don''t see any convincing reason not to move that now.

Kay