Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:39:02 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically Message-ID: <44B2F326.1090203@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060710223845.GA47557@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20060708152801.GA3671@crodrigues.org> <44AFD7DF.8090002@errno.com> <20060708161719.GB3871@crodrigues.org> <20060710223845.GA47557@dragon.NUXI.org>
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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? Scott
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