On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 06:32 -0400, Andrew Bradford wrote: > In the embedded book: > * Busybox has basic e2fsprogs functionality (chattr, fsck, lsattr, and > tune2fs) built into it now but not yet enabled in our config patch. > * The standard e2fsprogs install used in the embedded book builds some > rather large binaries. In total, they're on the order of the same > size as Busybox. > * Most people probably aren't creating file systems on their embedded > machine (thus not needing real e2fsprogs functionality beyond fsck). > > Do we really need e2fsprogs to be a core part of the embedded book if > the Busybox config patch is updated to include the basic > functionality? > > I can see an easy case being made for having e2fsprogs in a "beyond" > section, but it seems to me like Busybox can take care of the more > basic / required stuff like fsck for most embedded systems. > > What do you think?
I don't remember the original reason for it being there in the first place. Is there anything from e2fsprogs or util-linux being used in the bootscripts? -- Joe Ciccone _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-dev-cross-lfs.org
