On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:36:14PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
>
> If busybox pays attention to the superblock magic, the chance of calling
> mount(2) with the wrong filesystem should be very low. Beyond that, the
> kernels on offical Debian boot-floppies should also be a known factor.
official debian boot-floppies for powerpc include some very broken
filesystems compiled in: hfs. i don't trust it, i don't want it ever
tried for a real (*nix) partition, ever.
the only way i would be comfortable with using -t auto is if b-f has
control over what filesystems are tried, something like
mount -t ext3,ext2,xfs,reiserfs
where only those are tried in sequence.
but for right now my current code in dbootstrap is the ONLY safe and
sane solution.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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