Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:37:26 +0200 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 can figure out fstype automatically Message-ID: <86ac7krtu1.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> (Craig Rodrigues's message of "Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:28:01 -0400") References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org>
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Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> writes: > I've come up with a patch that does this, by interpreting > an fstype of "" as: > - starting with "ufs", iterate over all the local filesystem types > that we know about, and try to mount the device What about cases where there may be several matching file systems? For instance, a clean ext3 file system is also a valid ext2 file system (and vice versa). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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