usage of xfsctrl for embedded development / uuid question

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Fri Jan 15 06:46:17 CST 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:21:16PM +0100, paul.chavent at fnac.net wrote:
> 
> > install-dev is dependent on a full build of xfsprogs.
>  
> Even if i only do 
> make -C include install-dev
> 
> > Why not just include the xfsprogs-dev package (or equivalent)
> > from your base distro?
> 
> For a different architecture, i can't include my distro package.
> 
> I don't want the binaries of xfs progs, only the xfsctrl function.

It's a wrapper around ioctl(). You can call ioctl() directly
on not need xfsctl at all...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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