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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:34:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jos Hulzink wrote:

> While mounting a partition, the vfs layer tries to determine the partition

It doesn't and it shouldn't.  mount(8) does, so there's no reason to do that
in kerenl.

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