From: Richard Russon <ntfs@flatcap.org>
To: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT)
Date: 19 Feb 2002 11:52:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1014119542.2788.10.camel@addlestones> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020219102539.J93925-100000@snail.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020219102539.J93925-100000@snail.stack.nl>
Hi Jos,
> The first question I want answered: Should I just call myself stupid for
> trying to mount NTFS as VFAT, or should we consider this a real issue that
> needs fixing ?
Stupid? No.
Fixing? Yes.
Whatever you throw at mount, you want it to fail_safe_. i.e. in the
worst case, do nothing.
> While mounting a partition, the vfs layer tries to determine the partition
> type,
Without any help, mount (userspace) tries to determine the partition
type. It understands the magics of a LOT of filesystems.
It looks for the NTFS magic before the DOS magic (or any of its variants).
> and passes that info to the filesystem driver
Which is passed to the VFS, and the to the driver which performs some
more rigid tests (hopefully :-)
Cheers,
FlatCap (Rich)
ntfs@flatcap.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 10:30 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT Jos Hulzink
2002-02-15 17:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-15 20:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-02-18 12:55 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-02-18 14:56 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-02-19 10:02 ` VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT) Jos Hulzink
2002-02-19 11:52 ` Richard Russon [this message]
2002-02-19 12:48 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-02-19 13:34 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-19 14:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-19 11:03 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-03-09 9:50 ` [BUG] 2.5.6: IPv6 fails to initialize Jos Hulzink
2002-03-09 20:55 ` Ben Clifford
2002-03-11 17:58 ` David S. Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-19 12:21 VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT) Andries.Brouwer
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