Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:03:05 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 Problem |
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:11:51 +0200 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
There is a bad bug in the ext2 file system, namely the fact that the magic number is not stored in the same relative position as minix uses.
This is not really a bug in the ext2 filesystem --- *all* of the filesystems store their magic numbers at different offsets.
A clean solution to all of this would be to have the genhd code store the partition type code in the partition table along with all of the rest of the partition table's vital statistics, and then have the root filesystem autodetection code use that type code as a hint to see which filesystem it should try to mount first.
- Ted
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