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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:40:08 +0700
Subject: How does the kernel chooses the 'vfat' module for fat32
	partitions?
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hi Sudheer...

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:48, Sudheer Divakaran
<inbox1.sudheer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have one doubt regarding the component which determines that 'vfat'
> module is the correct module to be used for accessing fat32 file
> systems and how does vfat.ko ?became the ideal candidate for accessing
> fat32 partition?

AFAIK, kernel simply iterates the filesystem module so far loaded (the
ones you see in /proc/filesystems). Whichever match the superblock or
main metadata of the target partition, that is the one which is gonna
used...

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Mulyadi Santosa
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