Package: mount Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: normal
When mount has to guess a filesystem type it asks libblkid. libblkid may know both a TYPE and a SEC_TYPE. mount tries the TYPE but ignores the SEC_TYPE. I suggest that mount should try the SEC_TYPE if the TYPE fails for some reason. Here's my scenario: I have built a kernel without vfat support (for political reasons; I only use fat for reading camera flash cards, and they only ever have short filenames). When I try to mount an SD card, mount fails with "unknown filesystem type 'vfat'". Yet the blkid command shows that libblkid has determined SEC_TYPE="msdos" for the device. If mount tried this SEC_TYPE when the primary type failed it would succeed. I note that libblkid takes precedence over the /proc/filesystems and /etc/filesystems lists, so even though my /proc/filesystems lists msdos and not vfat [once the msdos module is loaded] and irrespective of what I put in /etc/filesystems, I still get this error. Regards, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mount depends on: ii libblkid1 1.41.5-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.9-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libuuid1 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 universally unique id library mount recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
