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Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically
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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?

Scott