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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
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