Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:25:10 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: kernel config option for default UFS filesystem |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:37:07 -0700 (PDT) barry bouwsma wrote:
[cc-ing UFS maintainer]
> Servus, Sportsfreunde! > > I'm sharing my x86 machine with several flavours of BSDen, and > thereby wishing to mount the UFS filesystems under Linux. > > Normally one has to specify the filesystem type, lest it otherwise > default to `old', which is for me, not useful. In my case, a 44bsd > default would match all my filesystems used by NetBSD and FreeBSD. > > I've recently been running with a hack to Kconfig, which lets me > select at config time, whether I wish to default to a different > ufstype. For me, with oldconfig, it spits out something like... > > UFS file system support (read only) (UFS_FS) [M/n/y/?] m > UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS) (UFS_FS_WRITE) [Y/n/?] y > UFS debugging (UFS_DEBUG) [N/y/?] n > Default UFS filesystem type > > 1. Old default (UFS_UFSTYPE_OLD) > 2. Sun x86 (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUNx86) > 3. Sun (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUN) > 4. SunOS (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUNOS) > 5. 44BSD (Free-, Net-, OpenBSD and friends) (UFS_UFSTYPE_44BSD) (NEW) > 6. UFS2 as added to 44BSD systems (UFS_UFSTYPE_UFS2) > 7. HP (UFS_UFSTYPE_HP) > 8. NeXTStep CD (UFS_UFSTYPE_NEXTSTEP_CD) > 9. NeXTStep (UFS_UFSTYPE_NEXTSTEP) > 10. OpenStep (UFS_UFSTYPE_OPENSTEP) > choice[1-10?]: 5 > > Is this something worthy of further cluttering up the kernel config > for my convenience, or not, given that there is no way presently to > automagically determine the proper UFS filesystem type at mount? > > > If it is, I'll post my hacks for ridicule and derision.
I'd say Yes, it's useful.
--- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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