busybox and mkfs.xfs

[Ned Ludd]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:56 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:24:01AM +0200, Michael Hunold wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > some time ago I integrated mkfs.xfs version 2.6.17 from xfsprogs into
> > busybox 1.1.2.
> > 
> > It's a straight forward integration: only the source files necessary are
> > compiled and main() was renamed to mkfs_xfs_main(). No changes were done
> > to the source code. Due to this, the "patch" is 4574866(!) bytes.
> 
> This obviously does not belong in BB, then. If you want it included,
> fix it so it's 50k or so of source. There's no excuse for mkfs.xfs
> being so amazingly bloated.


agreed. This program has no place or reason to be included with busybox.

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Ned Ludd <solar at gentoo.org>
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