- the upstream version. Not everything has to be part of Busybox.
-
- - Any partitioning tools: Partitioning a device is typically done once and
- only once, and tools which do this generally do not need to reside on the
- target device (esp a flash device). If you need a partitioning tool, grab
- one (such as fdisk, sfdisk, or cfdisk from util-linux) and use that, but
- don't try to merge it into busybox. These are nasty and complex and we
- don't want to maintain them.
+ the upstream version. Rationale: bugs in these tools can destroy
+ vast amounts of data. Keeping up with filesystem format development
+ is impractical (especially in the area of keeping fsck tool safe
+ and up-to-date).