Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756747AbYHMPZS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:25:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754436AbYHMPZB (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:25:01 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:32305 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755847AbYHMPZA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:25:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:25:10 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: free_beer_for_all@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dushistov@mail.ru Subject: Re: Proposal: kernel config option for default UFS filesystem Message-Id: <20080813082510.044e029c.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <618349.28606.qm@web46105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <618349.28606.qm@web46105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1952 Lines: 51 On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:37:07 -0700 (PDT) barry bouwsma wrote: [cc-ing UFS maintainer] > Servus, Sportsfreunde! > > I'm sharing my x86 machine with several flavours of BSDen, and > thereby wishing to mount the UFS filesystems under Linux. > > Normally one has to specify the filesystem type, lest it otherwise > default to `old', which is for me, not useful. In my case, a 44bsd > default would match all my filesystems used by NetBSD and FreeBSD. > > I've recently been running with a hack to Kconfig, which lets me > select at config time, whether I wish to default to a different > ufstype. For me, with oldconfig, it spits out something like... > > UFS file system support (read only) (UFS_FS) [M/n/y/?] m > UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS) (UFS_FS_WRITE) [Y/n/?] y > UFS debugging (UFS_DEBUG) [N/y/?] n > Default UFS filesystem type > > 1. Old default (UFS_UFSTYPE_OLD) > 2. Sun x86 (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUNx86) > 3. Sun (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUN) > 4. SunOS (UFS_UFSTYPE_SUNOS) > 5. 44BSD (Free-, Net-, OpenBSD and friends) (UFS_UFSTYPE_44BSD) (NEW) > 6. UFS2 as added to 44BSD systems (UFS_UFSTYPE_UFS2) > 7. HP (UFS_UFSTYPE_HP) > 8. NeXTStep CD (UFS_UFSTYPE_NEXTSTEP_CD) > 9. NeXTStep (UFS_UFSTYPE_NEXTSTEP) > 10. OpenStep (UFS_UFSTYPE_OPENSTEP) > choice[1-10?]: 5 > > Is this something worthy of further cluttering up the kernel config > for my convenience, or not, given that there is no way presently to > automagically determine the proper UFS filesystem type at mount? > > > If it is, I'll post my hacks for ridicule and derision. I'd say Yes, it's useful. --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ -- 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/