mke2fs

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I usually do not rewrite from scratch, I take existing
>> program and shrink it.
>
> Right. But following this way BB e2fsprogs got stuck, unfortunately...

No, it was not "this way". mke2fs was put into busybox
_without_ much effort of shrinking it.

And I do not say that "take existing program and shrink it"
is the only acceptable way. "rewrite from scratch" is also ok,
but if you are going to do that, you should be ready
to expend an effort to make it "reasonably good",
and I can't help you much in that work because it is not
_my_ mode of operation.

> One has to build vanilla e2fsprogs which tend to inflate more and
> more. A bare ext2 filesystem seems not so hard to generate, it's just
> me who doesn't feel comfortable when dealing with
> inodes/superblocks/fragments and so on...

Who's going to make it stable then?
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