Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:37:26 +0200
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc_at_crodrigues.org> writes:
> I've come up with a patch that does this, by interpreting
> an fstype of "" as:
>  - starting with "ufs", iterate over all the local filesystem types
>    that we know about, and try to mount the device

What about cases where there may be several matching file systems?
For instance, a clean ext3 file system is also a valid ext2 file
system (and vice versa).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Sat Jul 08 2006 - 13:37:33 UTC

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