From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem module autoprobe?
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:31:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B9FD1A.4060708@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387916547.2343.23.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>
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On 12/24/2013 03:22 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> If you're expecting
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> to insert all the available filesystem modules and discover that
> /dev/sda1 is ext2, this is a case of mismatched user expectations
> (because we won't).
mount uses libblkid to identify the correct filesystem and tells the
kernel to use it.
> If
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> isn't autoprobing, that's either a bug or a distribution problem.
So that *should* autoprobe? Any pointers to some docs on how that is
supposed to work or where to start looking to figure out why it isn't?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-24 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-24 3:34 Filesystem module autoprobe? Phillip Susi
2013-12-24 20:22 ` James Bottomley
2013-12-24 21:31 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-12-24 23:31 ` James Bottomley
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