Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:05:14 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically Message-ID: <44B2F94A.6020309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44B2F326.1090203@samsco.org> References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> <44AFD7DF.8090002@errno.com> <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> <20060710223845.GA47557@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2F326.1090203@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> >>> I was thinking of doing something like that. You can basically >>> get the same info by doing something like: >>> file - < /dev/ad0s1e >>> /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian) >>> file - < /dev/ad0s4 >>> /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem >>> >>> I leaned away from this approach in mount(8) because: >>> - I didn't want to tie mount(8) to file(1) >> >> >> Why not? We have libmagic for purposes like this. >> > > This is an interesting idea. However, it has the potential to > add a dependency on /usr to the early boot environment. Maybe it > could be done via rtld? Well, we have dynamic /sbin now, so that it's only the matter of moving libmagic into /lib. -Maxim
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