From: josh@joshtriplett.org
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Link mkswap to mkfs.swap so mkfs -t swap works
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:51:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140806175146.GA27011@cloud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140806133103.GJ19820@x2.net.home>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 03:31:03PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 11:48:14AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > This makes it easier to write generic code that deals with swap
> > along with other filesystems.
>
> Hmm... mkfs wrapper is deprecated, it does not provide any
> functionality and it seems better when people use directly the FS
> specific tools to create filesystems.
I've come across more than one script that takes a table of partition
sizes/proportions and filesystem types, creates the partitions, and
calls mkfs with the filesystem type.
Some of those scripts directly call mkfs.$type instead, rather than
mkfs -t $type, but either way this change would eliminate a special-case
for swap.
- Josh Triplett
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-03 18:48 [PATCH] Link mkswap to mkfs.swap so mkfs -t swap works Josh Triplett
2014-08-06 13:31 ` Karel Zak
2014-08-06 17:51 ` josh [this message]
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