[PATCH] Add support for mounting by label or UUID

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:32:09PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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.

Me too. I'm intending to use BB on my production workstation/server
machine very soon, and I'll continue to submit patches to fix bugs I
find or to make improvements where standards-required functionality is
missing, especially UTF-8-locale related issues.

> > 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?

You could rename it to "e2fuck" and then people have no business
complaining when it ruins their data.. :)

Rich