Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:06:02PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >>So in your opinion and experience, what are the pros and cons of >>maintaining a table of magic numbers? > > > The feature is imensely useful. The implementation won't win any > points for a clean design but works very well in practice. I think > it's definitly better than probing in the kernel because letting a filesystem > driver try to make sense of something that's not it's own format can > lead to all kinds of funnies. Linux does this (iterating all filesystem > types in kernel) for the special case of the root filesystem where mount(8) > is not available, and it showeds various interesting bugs at least in the > fat driver. > How does it resolve situations like with UDF vs iso9660, where both structures can co-exist? ScottReceived on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 18:32:07 UTC
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