On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:45:15AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Maybe we can improve mount(8) to test all entries from /etc/fstab
> > with the same mountpoint (if you want to mount-by-mountpoint) until
> > the filesystem will be mounted successfully. But I have doubts that
> > we really need to resolve this very old disadvantage.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto,vfat utf8
^^^^^^^^^
This is unacceptable, fstab is de-facto standard. We have to be
backwardly compatible.
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto generic-options
>
> The auto would trigger blkid to identify the filesystem, and then only
> if it matches one of the additional listed filesystems would that line
> be applied.
I thought something like:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat utf8
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto default
and then try in loop all the filesystem types for the mountpoint (or
make it smart and ask blkid for the type).
Karel
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