Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:38:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> 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: <20060710223845.GA47557@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> <44AFD7DF.8090002@errno.com> <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org>
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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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?
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