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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:03:54 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:02:42AM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:00:27PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> > The hell it is.
> > 
> > a) kernel has *NO* *FUCKING* *KNOWLEDGE* of fs type contained on a device.
> 
> excuse me, but how does the kernel mount the root fs?

trial and error.  That's why you see all thos ext3 mounted as ext2
problems, or $RANDOMFS as fat.