On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:31:07PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > What is the use case? Just having btrfs utilities to manage Btrfs file > systems, or is there some problems to avoid? I know that for NFS you > must add nfs-utils so that the util-linux provided 'mount' is able to > mount NFS shares.
It's just to manage the filesystems. For example, the equivalent of `df -h` requires btrfs-progs. > If the later is the use case, perhaps we could try to hard reference to > each file system utility in util-linux, instead of having it dispatch > some tool supposed to be in the PATH? I'm not sure how difficult that > would be, and it'd for sure increase the size of util-linux, but perhaps > the pros outweighs the cons. Is there some integration between util-linux and btrfs-progs?
