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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:17:49 +0200
From:      Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
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:  <20070118221749.3be589d9.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070118134936.GA7391@crodrigues.org>
References:  <20070118134936.GA7391@crodrigues.org>

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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:49:36 -0500
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> wrote:

> Using this patch, I have been able to do:
> mount /dev/blah /mnt
> 
> and mount a UFS, cd9660, or FAT filesystem, depending on what filesystem
> is on the /dev/blah device.
> 
> Comments?

OpenBSD already has such a functionality. It uses readlabelfs(3) for
this. What disadvantages or advantages does it have beside your
implementation?



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