Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:41:55 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) |
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On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:04:24AM +0200, Tonnerre wrote: > > Problem is: > > There are cool superblock magics for reiserfs. And for ext[23]. And > even for good old Minix. Cool. > > However, there are also ugly file systems, such as fat for > example. Fat has been defined as "something that can be read by a fat
This problem is not new. Kernel probes for filesystems in a particular order for mounting the root fs. And mount understands the fstype=auto in /etc/fstab. There is no perfect solution but it's sure possible to come up with something acceptable and workable with not too much effort, for a configuratble subset of file-systems. This is not that much different from an automounter/usermount mounting a USB storage device or cdrom: ext3, ext2, udf, iso9660, vfat, read-only or not, just to name a few things. This should work anyway.
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