Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267645AbUIFImD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 04:42:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263778AbUIFImD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 04:42:03 -0400 Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:9369 "EHLO janus.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263736AbUIFIl4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 04:41:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:41:55 +0200 From: Frank van Maarseveen To: Tonnerre Cc: Frank van Maarseveen , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Dave Kleikamp , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Message-ID: <20040906084155.GB31483@janus> References: <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> <20040902220027.GD23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040902220242.GA5414@janus> <20040902220640.GE23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040902221133.GB5414@janus> <20040902221722.GF23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040902222650.GA5523@janus> <20040906080424.GC28697@thundrix.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040906080424.GC28697@thundrix.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Subliminal-Message: Use Linux! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 26 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/