On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:12:11PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 22:39 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > mkfs.ubifs and mkfs.jffs2 link against liblzo2 which is in /usr/lib so > > putting these binaries in /sbin doesn't make sense. These binaries are > > not used as traditional mkfs utilities which create filesystems on block > > devices. Instead they are used to create "loopback" files which include > > a prebuilt filesystems. > But isn't jffs2 used as root-fs in some embedded devices? And wouldn't > it be necessary for that to have it in /bin ?
yes it used rootfs no they dont need in mkfs.jffs2 in sbin. please try to understand that mkfs.jffs2 is not used to format block (or nand) devices. it is used to precreate filesystems on regular files. > > > keeping the bug open in case someone else wonders about the same issue. > Then we should use wontfix, shouldn't we? yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
