From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [66.187.233.31]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8ODq5Q3021687 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:52:11 -0700 Message-ID: <46F7B8B9.4040707@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:16:41 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs References: <20070919061404.GA1628@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F1CFC0.3070801@redhat.com> <20070920050923.GX32520@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F2D678.4060203@redhat.com> <20070920215427.GL30221@thunk.org> <20070924092539.GC2819@petra.dvoda.cz> <20070924124035.GA4209@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20070924124035.GA4209@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Theodore Tso Cc: Karel Zak , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, List util-linux-ng , xfs-oss Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: >>> Nope, there isn't much rationale unless we also split out fsck, so >> util-linux-ng is open for fsck :-) > > It's something I'm considering, but at the moment I've got some higher > priority (ext4) work that I'm focusing on. > > What would you think about moving libblkid and the libdisk from > xfsprogs into util-linux-ng? That's things that I've been batting > around doing, although that means we end up moving more libraries that > distros would probably want separated into different packages into > util-linux-ng.... Heh, sounds a little like a prisoner exchange... "we'll give up libblkid & libcom_err if you give up libdisk" :) Seriously, though, that all sounds like a pretty good idea to me, especially since e2fsprogs has been making noise about utilizing some of the functionality in xfsprogs (stripe discovery etc). -Eric