Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

>   + is there interest in having makefs become part of the
>     standard system, instead of a port ?

Not from me.

>   + how hard would it be to teach disklabel and fsck to
>     work on files (filesystem images) as well as devices ?

This is as easy as upgrading to RELENG_4 to avoid some breakages.  fsck
still works, but device independence of newfs and disklabel has been
broken.  This is easy to fix for newfs, and disklabel shouldn't be
needed unless the image contains more than 1 partition.

Bruce