On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:00 AM, John Levon <john.levon at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:46:08PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: > >> The approach that I am taking is to use an option to specifiy that >> mount should "figure it out". >> >> # ./mount -f /dev/lofi/2 /mnt > > It's early, but why do you need the option?
I've been flip-flopping on this one. So long as there isn't a strong tie to the current behavior I am quite happy to drop that requirement. > Are you worried about fstyp being wrong? If so, wouldn't a fall back to > guessing 'ufs' assuage that fear? So long as libfstyp works it will always be wrong by falling back to ufs. I'm somewhat inclined to just given an error message if libfstyp can't figure it out. > PS I'd love to see this change made Glad to hear it! -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
