Util-linux-ng

[Joe Ciccone]

Matthew Burgess wrote:
>
> Yeah, I saw this too.  It's not the most popular of changes though (see 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng%40vger.kernel.org/msg00350.html and 
> David Miller's reply).  So, we might see a package agnostic filesystem 
> detection library, possibly even before util-linux-2.13 is out.  Anyway, I 
> agree - from the comments and patches I've seen from a brief glance at the 
> mailing list archives for util-linux-ng, that package has been in need of a 
> lot of TLC for a long time now so we'd do well to pick up the new releases 
>
>   
I like the suggestion in this email about creating a general library for 
detecting filesystem types. something e2fsprogs / udev / util-linux can 
all use. It'll be interesting to see where this goes. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng%40vger.kernel.org/msg00368.html