On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Sachin Gaikwad wrote: > Is it not the case that VFS takes care of all filesystems available ? > VFS will see if a particular file belongs to ext3 or ext4 and call > that FS's drivers to access information ?? No, it doesn't quite work that way. You have to mount a particular partition using a specific filesystem (i.e., ntfs, vfat, ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.). A partition formatted using ext2 can be mounted using the ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem driver. You can explicitly specify what filesystem should be used to mount a particuar partition using the -t option to the mount program, or by specifying a particular filesystem type in the /etc/fstab file. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
