I revisited mut recently and added ext4 , cut out the debugging stuff and it its a rather neat binary for detecting drive info which can be used for one off scans or as a backend daemon including detecting usb insertions.
Its a bit like busybox for hardware.... perhaps could be built on if scripting proves too scripty....
I used a cut down uClib version in the initrd of lucid sucessfully too.
It was an ongoing promising project until jesse left the fold, though the guess_fstype part of it has had some further attention.
mike
