Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:24:54 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ger=B8o?= <danger@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/115571: Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in thehandbook Message-ID: <20070818102454.GX32579@e.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <f2e2fd11334654446170bd74c99d05f8@rulez.sk> References: <200708161204.l7GC4vVu071408@www.freebsd.org> <f2e2fd11334654446170bd74c99d05f8@rulez.sk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Daniel Geržo wrote: > > Hello Lars, > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:04:57 GMT, Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > >>Number: 115571 > >>Category: docs > >>Synopsis: Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in the > > > On > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble.html > > could you please change mount_msdosfs to mount -t msdosfs? > > The former should no longe be executed manually. > > May I ask you why do you suspect that mount_msdosfs should > not be user any more? > Hi Daniel, please compare the number of mount_* binaries in a 6.x and a CURRENT System. <FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT> [maggie:/sbin] lars@ttyp6 > ls mount_* | wc -l 9 <FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE> [NB011798:/sbin] lars@ttyp2 > ls mount_* | wc -l 18 In src/sbin/mount/mount.c you find the following: /* XXX: We need to get away from implementing external mount * programs for every filesystem, and move towards having * each filesystem properly implement the nmount() system call. */ And there are several mails on mailinglists on that topic. E.g.: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-May/072783.html So advocating mount -t in the handbook is more future-proof. :-) Best regards, Lars [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGxsj2Kc512sD3afgRAqwUAJ9W2DR/dJm/51Hw9uOFOWYjzVKXEgCeMEYu cBcSutV+BU4GYPRlXFchiUY= =pGK1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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