[PATCH] Add support for mounting by label or UUID

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Jul 10 21:32:09 UTC 2006


On Monday 10 July 2006 3:31 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 19:06, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Ideally,
> > > someone would take that code, coalesce it with mine, and put it in a
> > > common spot.  I don't use or want to touch e2fsprogs though, so it
> > > won't be me (at least not anytime soon).
> >
> > Do people actually use reiserfs with BusyBox?  I've seen people use ext2,
> > ext3, squashfs, iso9660, cramfs, minixfs, initramfs, and probably a few
> > others.  But I haven't seen reiserfs, jfs, or xfs.  But I suppose once
> > we've started adding explicit SMP support...
>
> Well, I do. On my desktop machines I have bbox and reiserfs.
>
> Actually, I think that bbox and "small is beautiful" idiom in general
> is "the Right Thing" (if not taken to the extreme), and should be promoted
> not only in small/embedded devices world (I think we won there already),
> but on the desktop too. It can be done only if we will actually use it
> on the desktops.

I'm entirely in favor of this as well.

What I was really thinking about was whether reiserfs support should have a 
CONFIG entry or not.  Wasn't quite big enough, and a global resiserfs support 
option only has one other place (stat.c) that's also tiny, so I didn't 
bother...

> That's why I use bbox on my desktop. I've been lazy and do install
> "bloated" stuff (coreutils, awk, etc...) whenever I hit incompatibility
> or lack of feature in bbox, but I should not ;)

I need to restart my firmware linux project, and/or modify buildroot to use 
busybox in the build environment instead of coreutils and friends, or add 
such a mode to gentoo...  But my day job wants me to spend at least half my 
time on non-busybox stuff.

> Not sure whether we should ever include *fsprogs tools into bbox.
> After all, that's _specialized_ tools which are also critical.
> Would you like to see "buggy bbox e2fsck ate my data!!!" bug reports?

You mean like the e2fsck that Mike Frysinger dumped into BusyBox along with 
the rest of the e2fscrap directory?

> My 0.02 in some currency.
> --
> vda

Rob
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