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From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:03:04AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > But can we *please* take your custom tool out back and shoot it in the
> > head?
> 
> Nope. As mentioned, this isn't about creating ext4 filesystem images,
> and it isn't even remotely similar to mke2fs.

Can you please tell us what your tool is for, then?  Why are you doing
this?  Why are you inflicting this on us?

And if the answer is nope, I can't, it's propietary, sorry....  then I
think we should treat this the same way we treat proprietary kernel
modules.

       	     	      	        - Ted