mkfd.msdos

[Jason Schoon]

Here was the start of the original thread:
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-July/015001.html

I had it on my own TODO list for quite some time, but I think has
slipped down below the realm of possibly getting done, in favor of
things that were more beneficial.  Who knows, inspiration may hit yet
though ;-)



On 3/15/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 11:50 am, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > I once posted a patch to add mkdosfs to Busybox as mkfs.msdos.  Later there
> > was some cleanup needed on it, and no longer having a device to support
> > that used it, I just didn't have the ambition to work with it any longer.
> > Plus the code was fairly ugly, and it really just needed to be cleanly
> > rewritten.
>
> Do you have a link?  I'll throw it on the TODO heap.
>
> > This reminds me of something I wanted to bring up a while back.  There is a
> > contributing.txt in the docs directory of Busybox.  It spells out several
> > examples of things that Busybox does not need.  The first two listed are no
> > longer valid, since they say fdisk is not welcome, nor are filesystem
> > manipulation tools (i.e. mkdosfs or ext2).
>
> Heh.  Yeah, that sounds a bit out of date.
>
> > The fifth point spells out not
> > including servers, specifically httpd, which we of course have as well.
>
> I'm not convinced adding httpd was a good idea, and we definitely don't want
> dropbear (cool as it is).  We need to make some sort of policy decisions at
> some point, which will probably come after a menu reorganization where we
> audit what it is we've got...
>
> > Probably ought to either eliminate the document altogether, or give it a
> > good cleaning.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Rob
>
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