On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:36:14PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > > If busybox pays attention to the superblock magic, the chance of calling > mount(2) with the wrong filesystem should be very low. Beyond that, the > kernels on offical Debian boot-floppies should also be a known factor. official debian boot-floppies for powerpc include some very broken filesystems compiled in: hfs. i don't trust it, i don't want it ever tried for a real (*nix) partition, ever. the only way i would be comfortable with using -t auto is if b-f has control over what filesystems are tried, something like mount -t ext3,ext2,xfs,reiserfs where only those are tried in sequence. but for right now my current code in dbootstrap is the ONLY safe and sane solution. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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