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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:24:54 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ger=B8o?= <danger@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/115571: Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in thehandbook
Message-ID:  <20070818102454.GX32579@e.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <f2e2fd11334654446170bd74c99d05f8@rulez.sk>
References:  <200708161204.l7GC4vVu071408@www.freebsd.org> <f2e2fd11334654446170bd74c99d05f8@rulez.sk>

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Daniel Ger=B8o wrote:
>=20
> Hello Lars,
>=20
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:04:57 GMT, Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >=20
> >>Number:         115571
> >>Category:       docs
> >>Synopsis:       Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in the
>=20
> > On
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble=
=2Ehtml
> > could you please change mount_msdosfs to mount -t msdosfs?
> > The former should no longe be executed manually.
>=20
> May I ask you why do you suspect that mount_msdosfs should
> not be user any more?
>=20

Hi Daniel,

please compare the number of mount_* binaries in a 6.x and a CURRENT
System.=20

<FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT> [maggie:/sbin]
lars@ttyp6 > ls mount_* | wc -l
       9

<FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE> [NB011798:/sbin]
lars@ttyp2 > ls mount_* | wc -l
      18


In src/sbin/mount/mount.c you find the following:

/* XXX: We need to get away from implementing external mount
 *      programs for every filesystem, and move towards having
 *      each filesystem properly implement the nmount() system call.
 */


And there are several mails on mailinglists on that topic. E.g.:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-May/072783.html


So advocating mount -t in the handbook is more future-proof. :-)


Best regards,

Lars

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