Re: Strange ext filesystem error

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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On 2011-10-26 18:22, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Gary Thomas<gary@mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> I've noticed this behaviour on my Poky/Yocto based systems.
>> First, I format some device, in this case an MMC card, as ext3
>> (yes, my kernel supports ext3)
>>   # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
>> Then, when I go to mount it, I get this error:
>>   # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/disk
>>   EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>>
>> Any ideas why?  How can I get ext3 file system working?
>
> Sounds like once again the file mount uses to guess types is out of order.
> I think it's part of base-files but I don't have a chance to check right now...
>

Looks like that's it, thanks.  I think that list is completely wrong in
its ordering - one should always try to use the *most* capable type first.
The attached patch works fine and solves this problem for me.

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From 8417dfee5cbdb1809296533604beb41dd599282e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:24:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Reorder file system list so that most capable types are
 tried first

Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
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 .../recipes-core/base-files/base-files/filesystems |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/filesystems b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/filesystems
index 2af6a7e..14f5abb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/filesystems
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/filesystems
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-minix
-fat
-vfat
-ext2
 ext3
+ext2
+vfat
+fat
 btrfs
+minix
 *
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1.7.6.4