On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:28:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > It seems the vista DVD is a mixed iso9660/udf whose iso9660 contains a > > README pointing out that you should use udf, etc. Probably other DVDs do > > (or will do) the same. The default fstab setting makes "mount /cdrom" use > > iso9660, whereas "auto" seems to choose the appropiate option for each case. > > I would suggest: > > The current default of udf,iso9660 should make mount try each filesystem > in the order listed and so use udf first. Is there some reason this > doesn't work in your case? > > There might be other benefits to using type=auto. I've seen machines > where ext2 needed to be added to the fs list since ext2 formatted CDs > were used. The only real downside seems to be if libblkid guesses the > filesystem type incorrectly. Does that happen? Theodore, as the libblkid maintainer, do you have any comments about such a change? After a quick search to have a look at other distributions, I have found that Gentoo already uses "auto" in its example [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap1 Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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