On 5/6/13 3:49 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
...
> Interesting, so [mount] really does try to mount by successive fs types.
>
> I wonder when that behavior changed (my util-linux-ng 2.17 on RHEL6 doesn't do this)
>
> I'll take a look.
Just to satisfy my curiosity:
commit c6c98f93f5e4b3fb9a8b51ed2ef9967793df7b1c
Author: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 15 13:46:43 2010 +0100
mount: report ambivalent FS detection, improve brute force detection
The ambivalent probing result should be properly reported and user
should be informed that the problem is possible to bypass by "-t
<type>" or resolved by wipefs(8).
The mount(8) command uses a brute force stage (calls mount(2) for all
/{proc,etc}/fylesystems) if there is not any other way how to detect
the filesystem type. The brute force stage should not be restricted by
libblkid. It's possible that libblkid is not able to detect slightly
corrupted filesystem, but kernel is able to mount such filesystem.
Note that the brute force stage should not be used if libblkid returns
ambivalent probing result. In this case user's intervention is required
(e.g. mount -t <type>).
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
So we're getting into xfs mount with an actual "-t xfs" equivalent,
and not going down the "silent" paths.
I'll send the patch.
Thanks,
-Eric
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