From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: =?unknown-8bit?Q?J=F6rn_Engel_=3Cjoern=40wohnheim=2Efh-wedel=2Ede=3E?=@win.tue.nl
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make cramfs look less hostile
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030616112128.GA9415@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030616091215.GA17446@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:12:15AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Sun, 15 June 2003 23:49:09 +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:18:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > >
> > > The only places where this should happen is mounting the rootfs.
> > > mount(8) has it's own filesystem type detection code and doesn't
> > > call mount(2) unless it found a matching filesystem type.
> >
> > Too optimistic a description.
> > Any person who likes reliable results will give mount a -t option.
> > If someone likes to gamble, and doesnt mind system crashes, he'll
> > omit the -t and let mount guess what the type should have been.
> > Mount has a battery of heuristics for a handful of filesystems.
> > If any of these succeeds mount will try that type.
> > If none succeeds, mount will try consecutively all types listed
> > in /proc/filesystems for which no heuristic is present.
>
> Actually, I have one example of reality matching Christoph's
> description, so he wins this fight as well.
Please don't distribute misinformation.
If you doubt, read the mount(8) code first.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-15 16:05 [PATCH] make cramfs look less hostile Jörn Engel
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2003-06-15 17:17 ` Jörn Engel
[not found] ` <200306151157.10493.brian@mdrx.com>
2003-06-15 17:19 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-15 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 17:39 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-15 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 17:58 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-15 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 18:14 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-15 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 21:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-16 9:12 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-16 11:21 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-06-16 11:37 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-18 0:24 ` Robert White
2003-06-15 17:27 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-16 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2003-06-15 21:20 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-06-16 5:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
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