From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Filesystem module autoprobe? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:34:57 -0500 Message-ID: <52B900E1.2060903@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fsdevel Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:36649 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754625Ab3LXDe6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:34:58 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I thought that these days module autoprobe was pretty much taken care of and that in the case of filesystems, an attempt to mount a filesystem for which a module had not yet been loaded would result in the kernel forking a modprobe on fs-xxx, which would use the module aliases to match up an appropriate module and load it. So why is it that when I try to mount an ext2 filesystem mount complains that there's no such filesystem until I modprobe ext2? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSuQDhAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwzPEIAJwBewwaiEPa1w3OdC+kXYVV egHB1KS4pnPsgdmmBsz9bQLLwrvh+9YJMRUJX0jroEIQErEb7R+KWHab+0Cu6Lfd q84lx/x/2bbyncJxjxx/ayRiKHKeytEYajLEckbs7IWT8oJJN8goNDOIGCCd0Sjv THOkrZJjQz8Q50EXytv6aZ4jazKJRGpAiuQsHCFOnrwMNUMYrxb0MGmr2EqyCNiJ wI0Xpgn16jdvTaDsk0nDOVFs0NKg52oXDj9myGDL2ikowGSurmDb3ftnLmBZsGFL D8Vaq3qRtysbxzT6aJXprAY7utT2h00at61xEpehnSvrcnHIA8WDeq99nWFDgGk= =ALBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----