Re: Filesystem module autoprobe?

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On 12/24/2013 03:22 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> If you're expecting
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 
> to insert all the available filesystem modules and discover that
> /dev/sda1 is ext2, this is a case of mismatched user expectations 
> (because we won't).

mount uses libblkid to identify the correct filesystem and tells the
kernel to use it.

> If
> 
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 
> isn't autoprobing, that's either a bug or a distribution problem.

So that *should* autoprobe?  Any pointers to some docs on how that is
supposed to work or where to start looking to figure out why it isn't?


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