From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Sachin Gaikwad <sachin.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
kernel learner <kernellearner@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading datastructures between different filesystem versions
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:53:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070927005333.GB18346@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5524d840709261629t6268a050i7483d0229a57cd92@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Sachin Gaikwad wrote:
> Is it not the case that VFS takes care of all filesystems available ?
> VFS will see if a particular file belongs to ext3 or ext4 and call
> that FS's drivers to access information ??
No, it doesn't quite work that way. You have to mount a particular
partition using a specific filesystem (i.e., ntfs, vfat, ext2, ext3,
ext4, etc.). A partition formatted using ext2 can be mounted using
the ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem driver. You can explicitly specify
what filesystem should be used to mount a particuar partition using
the -t option to the mount program, or by specifying a particular
filesystem type in the /etc/fstab file.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 15:27 Upgrading datastructures between different filesystem versions kernel learner
2007-09-26 5:40 ` Jim Cromie
2007-09-26 16:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-26 23:29 ` Sachin Gaikwad
2007-09-27 0:53 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-09-28 13:11 ` Erik Mouw
2007-09-28 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-28 19:47 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-29 9:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
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