Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:23:29 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically Message-ID: <44B2FD91.4010503@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <44B2F94A.6020309@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> <44AFD7DF.8090002@errno.com> <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> <20060710223845.GA47557@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2F326.1090203@samsco.org> <44B2F94A.6020309@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >> David O'Brien wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >>> >>>> I was thinking of doing something like that. You can basically >>>> get the same info by doing something like: >>>> file - < /dev/ad0s1e >>>> /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian) >>>> file - < /dev/ad0s4 >>>> /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem >>>> >>>> I leaned away from this approach in mount(8) because: >>>> - I didn't want to tie mount(8) to file(1) >>> >>> >>> >>> Why not? We have libmagic for purposes like this. >>> >> >> This is an interesting idea. However, it has the potential to >> add a dependency on /usr to the early boot environment. Maybe it >> could be done via rtld? > > > Well, we have dynamic /sbin now, so that it's only the matter of moving > libmagic into /lib. > > -Maxim libmagic depends on libz. Let's not go down the path of populating /lib with every convenience under the sun. Scott
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