Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > 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.
OK; so just as a convenience. >> 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? No, at least mounting Btrfs doesn't require a mount.btrfs helper like NFS does. Maxim
