Steve Simmons wrote:
> <*chuckle*> So as a reducto ad absurdum argument, I can assume this
> means there are no actual linux filesystem type numbers because it's
> impossible to get agreement. As Descarte didn't say, "I think not."
> </*chuckle>
> 
> Since it clearly is possible and there's a minor shitload of them out
> there, it must be doable. On the other hand, in spite of Marcus'
> comments about asking the right question, it's not at all clear what the
> right question is.  Derricks comment above leads me to believe there's
> history here that clearly isn't known to all. So before the rest of us
> who think having a fs_type is a good thing go out and start spinning our
> wheels, can some of you gatekeepers do a history dump for us?

The name space is fairly sparse and it does appear that file systems
have simply selected values which have some meaning to the developers.
The more recent values appear to be four byte character strings
converted to numeric values.

If you are in a position to get a new entry added to the Linux
sys/statfs.h header file, please do so.  I would suggest a value of

  AFS_SUPER_MAGIC       0x5346414F

If you are successful, send a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
we will update the code.

Thanks.

Jeffrey Altman

P.S.

To be honest, I really don't think there would be any harm in just using
this value.  "OAFS"  Who else would?




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