On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:38:28AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:

> > Would this case also obsolete /etc/default/fs (I don't know offhand if
> > anything else cares about that?).
> 
> If this project doesn't obsolete it (and remove the default_fs(4) man
> page), then I think it should respect the file by using that value as
> the default file system type in case libfstyp doesn't recognize the
> file system.

Which has the effect of giving a confusing error message... much better
to obsolete it.

> > What about /etc/dfs/fstypes (once
> > again, not sure if anyone uses that)?
> 
> I don't quite understand the relationship with that file.  That's used
> to identify "remote" file systems.
> 
> (I suspect you're talking about the "use the first line" trickery
> that [I think] is mostly involved with net booting.  In that case, I
> don't think any sort of change is needed.

You're probably right: I didn't investigate.

regards
john

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