[Libguestfs] Patch that implements support to create UFS1 partitions with mkfs-opts

Nikita A Menkovich menkovich at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 17:33:25 UTC 2011


Yes, this all will be fine.

On 26 January 2011 18:37, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:06:54PM +0300, Nikita A Menkovich wrote:
>> +  if (optargs_bitmask & GUESTFS_MKFS_OPTS_FEATURES_BITMASK) {
>> +     if (STREQ (fstype, "ufs")) {
>> +       argv[i++] = "-O";
>> +       argv[i++] = features;
>> +     }
>> +  }
>
> Is there a reason to restrict this to ufs?  ext2/3/4 also has features
> which can be configured through the -O option.  I removed the inner
> 'if' statement.
>
>> +For UFS the C<blocksize> parameter by default is C<16384>, minimal is C<4096>.
>
> This is interesting information, but by declaring it here it ties us
> our ABI to some particular feature of Debian 'ufsutils'.  I have made
> this into a separate patch and changed the wording a bit so that we
> aren't promising anything.
>
> Please see the attached 2 x patches.  If these are suitable for you, I
> will commit them.
>
> Rich.
>
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