On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 16:31 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > 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. No idea about that, but making it work is a distro specific problem, I'd look at the source code. However, if you pass a NULL fstype to sys_mount, it will try every fs it knows about until one says yes. > > 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? Yes, mount -t <fstype> should try to load a module with alias fs-<fstype> each filesystem module has a MODULE_ALIAS_FS which constructs this. James -- 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
