From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:09:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cubgrb$39e$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050207084709.GA30680@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu
Followup to: <20050207084709.GA30680@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu>
By author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pozs=E1r_Bal=E1zs?= <pozsy@uhulinux.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Granted, I could override the default order by using a /etc/filesystems
> file. But the kernel should have a much more sane default on its own,
> namely "try vfat before msdos".
>
What it really means is that mount(8) should know this is a special
case; presumably it already knows to try ext3 over ext2.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-08 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-06 5:33 msdos/vfat defaults are annoying John Richard Moser
2005-02-06 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 16:29 ` John Richard Moser
2005-02-06 23:21 ` [PATCH] " Pozsar Balazs
2005-02-07 0:36 ` Al Viro
2005-02-07 0:42 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 2:48 ` Nuno Monteiro
2005-02-07 8:47 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 12:53 ` Michelle Konzack
2005-02-07 21:59 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-02-07 14:27 ` Nuno Monteiro
2005-02-08 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-02-07 6:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-07 11:29 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-07 12:45 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 14:00 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-08 0:23 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-08 2:24 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-06 11:15 ` Michelle Konzack
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='cubgrb$39e$1@terminus.zytor.com' \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.