Re: Hacking linux-utils for swap label

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Blkid also has the advantage that it doesn't require a modern 2.6
> kernel to function (since it isn't dependent on udev) in order to find
> the device where a particular filesystem with a particular label or
> UUID.

I don't see that requirement anywhere in the vol_id code.  It's a
stand-alone binary that should work with just about any kernel version,
as it just talks to the block device directly.  No udev requirement at
all (it just happens to live in the udev source tree for now, I think
that's changing as HAL and some other utilities are starting to rely on
it.)

Anyway, I don't have any objection to blkid, just trying to point out
another solution, instead of having the original poster try to reinvent
the wheel again :)

thanks,

greg k-h