Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:15:00 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mount(8) can figure out fstype Message-ID: <86lkk02wp7.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070118134936.GA7391@crodrigues.org> (Craig Rodrigues's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:49:36 -0500") References: <20070118134936.GA7391@crodrigues.org>
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Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> writes: > This is a different version of the patch I posted here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2006-July/005439.html Didn't somebody mention ordering issues back then? Your revised patch still doesn't even try to address those. If we ever get ext3 support, for instance, mounting an ext2 file system as ext3 might cause it to be silently upgraded to ext3. Not to mention the slew of error messages this will result in as you walk the list of filesystems trying to find the right one... A better way would be to have a userland utility attempt to identify the file system, and if necessary load the appropriate module, before mounting it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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