[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fstab-generator: do not check btrfs and xfs

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:23:39PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
[snip]
> The nicer option appears to me is to talk to xfs and btrfs upstream and
> ask them to either change their fsck to a symlink to /bin/true or to
> remove it altogether. Because otherwise we cannot detect whether fscking
> is actually necessary. I'd just reassign all bug reports popping up to
> their respective utilities asking them to fix this, and giving us a
> sane API to detct wether fsck is necessary or not. And that sane API
> should be to to install that symlink or nothing at all.
Installing nothing at at all or a symlink to /bin/true increases the
burder on the fs developers, because now they have to make an additional
effort to educate people what it means. I just don't see that happening.

But seems I'm the only one who likes the patch, let's forget about it.

Zbyszek