Re: [PATCH, RFC] mke2fs: get device topology values from blkid

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Sep 18, 2009  09:04 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> +	rc = blkid_probe_set_device(pr, fd, 0, 0);
>>
>> Is this in the e2fsprogs blkid code yet?  I'm guessing not, since you
>
> right, not yet.  I don't know what the long-term plan is for e2fsprogs  
> blkid; keeping 2 trees in sync seems like a lot of work w/o much gain...

I thought that was Ted's plan?  We usually recommend people to update to
the latest e2fsprogs, yet not everyone will be able to upgrade to the
latest util-linux, especially if it is pulling in other libraries that
can cause package conflicts (e.g. with xfstools or similar).

>> Either this needs to be configured in, or you need to upgrade the
>> blkid included with e2fsprogs to handle this.
>
> Yep, that's why I said "It'll also need some config-fu to be sure we've  
> got a blkid which has these calls...." :) and why I was asking about  
> moving the in-tree headers slightly out of the way.

Sigh, it helps if I read the whole email, I guess... :-)

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