From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] Add ZFS detection to libblkid
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:38:48 -0600
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Cc: "Ricardo M. Correia" <Ricardo.M.Correia@sun.com>,
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To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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On Jun 02, 2008  22:58 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Ricardo M. Correia wrote:
> > Hi Karel,
> > 
> > On Seg, 2008-06-02 at 09:41 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > 
> > >  It'd be nice to add ZFS detection to libvolume_id from udev package.
> > 
> > 
> > Interesting, I didn't know libvolume_id existed.
> > Is there a reason why there should be 2 different libraries doing what
> > appears to be essentially the same thing?
> 
>  I'm just merging these two libraries to libfsprobe :-)
>  http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=shortlog;h=topic/fsprobe

Hrm, having "fs" in the name is a bit unfortunate, since several of the
things that libblkid detects are not filesystems (e.g. MD, swap).
Similarly, libvolume_id also does not contain "fs" in the name...

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.