From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: Filesystem module autoprobe? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:31:06 -0500 Message-ID: <52B9FD1A.4060708@ubuntu.com> References: <52B900E1.2060903@ubuntu.com> <1387916547.2343.23.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel To: James Bottomley Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:46390 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750979Ab3LXVbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:31:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1387916547.2343.23.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSuf0aAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw7aUH/ir25B8lch2syfvPxY/k7x06 5j05rowEBpY6yhRtM7h2UmtzP6yJH8eVy2lBRnhHoURWFmNiCid9FAPOawn+bl1B QLno+VPZpIaxuQ6mv0dBtq7EVzzPnpl3MR5Im+P6UabEmqfMlp6HFGBXIHYhJFSj to2XXwxt4xrZo8GZxelVEGSjaYUx1FrRmPxoaH8KxBwY0kfDqaYDibC8flaWuFnT W9WZdcy9BgURLt6eBRDN9Vk2EW05S64NiGNyGkGKZwHoQoWjLhTkGghmW9le+aui bZxJl0cnjeNTfriNB5iVjMZOvJHO7Ui0AWwBGPUGI/XMx2DyDUEMi1wo+9TNQOQ= =ibM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----