Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Frank van Maarseveen
2004-09-06T08:41:55Z

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:04:24AM +0200, Tonnerre wrote:
>
> Problem is:
>
> There are cool superblock magics for reiserfs. And for ext[23]. And
> even for good old Minix. Cool.
>
> However, there are also ugly file systems, such as fat for
> example. Fat has been defined as "something that can be read by a fat

This problem is not new. Kernel probes for filesystems in a particular
order for mounting the root fs. And mount understands the fstype=auto in
/etc/fstab. There is no perfect solution but it's sure possible to come
up with something acceptable and workable with not too much effort, for
a configuratble subset of file-systems. This is not that much different
from an automounter/usermount mounting a USB storage device or cdrom:
ext3, ext2, udf, iso9660, vfat, read-only or not, just to name a few
things. This should work anyway.

--
Frank