>> I had miss-remembered the default for >> mount as being ext2, when in fact it is minix. > ... >> Two questions: Why is minix the default file system for mount? Why does >> mount hang when trying to mount an ext2 file system as minix?
Owen LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't there still a comment in the source for mount saying that the > minix default is only temporary until ext2 stabilises? Some of us > have been compiling mount with ext2 as the default for a long time, > and some others may have had such mount commands without realising > it. For several util-linux versions, mount has been able to automatically detect the magic of minix, ext, ext2, xiafs, and iso9660 filesystems. mount-2.5i also detects High Sierra CD-ROM filesystems. I'd bet this works right in the upcoming Debian 1.1 release. The "default" setting is really meaningless nowadays. > It seems to me a good idea to change the mount source in util-linux > to default to ext2, and to see that all future binaries have this as > the default. -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
