>
> Looking at strace it seems that mount first attempts the mount() syscall, if
> that fails then it iterates /proc/filesystems and attempts to exec
> mount.<fstype>.
>
> However, if the device is already mounted, mount() fails not because the
> kernel doesn't grok the fs-type, but because the device is in use.  In that
> case, we should probably fail and report the mount() syscall error
> immediately, instead of pointlessly iterating /proc/filesystems looking for
> helper apps.
>
> Am I missing something else?
>

AFAIKS, iterations are only made if mount doesn't know fstype, either
from -t option, or from /etc/fstab database.
Can you put your testcase here?

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Vladimir
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