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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vxfs fix
In-Reply-To: <E15SOL6-0001JZ-00@the-village.bc.nu> "from Alan Cox at Aug 2, 2001
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:57:49 -0600 (MDT)
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Alan writes:
> When the read_super method is invoked
> AND we are doing a mount without a defined type
> 	THEN
> 		Pass the fs a flag from the VFS saying so
> 	ENDIF
> 
> That way the file system can actually say "I cannot reliably check"

Isn't this what the "silent" option to read_super is for?  It may be that
it can only be used at root fs mount time.  Other than that, I don't
_think_ the kernel does autoprobing of filesystem types, so it is a
mount(8) issue to just not randomly try the V7 filesystem type.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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