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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 39505@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39505: Adding filesystem utilities based on file-systems
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:37:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200220183726.GA6891@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blpu2av8.fsf@apteryx.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:31:07PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> What is the use case?  Just having btrfs utilities to manage Btrfs file
> systems, or is there some problems to avoid?  I know that for NFS you
> must add nfs-utils so that the util-linux provided 'mount' is able to
> mount NFS shares.

It's just to manage the filesystems. For example, the equivalent of `df
-h` requires btrfs-progs.

> If the later is the use case, perhaps we could try to hard reference to
> each file system utility in util-linux, instead of having it dispatch
> some tool supposed to be in the PATH?  I'm not sure how difficult that
> would be, and it'd for sure increase the size of util-linux, but perhaps
> the pros outweighs the cons.

Is there some integration between util-linux and btrfs-progs?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-20 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-08  0:31 bug#39505: Adding filesystem utilities based on file-systems Leo Famulari
2020-02-10 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-20  3:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-20 18:37   ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-02-20 20:32     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-28 23:53       ` Maxim Cournoyer

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