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Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:52:18PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> dbootstrap's mount_partition() goes to a lot of trouble to work out what
> to pass to mount(1) on the -t option.  Busybox's mount seems to support
> "-t auto".  Why not just let mount do the work?

i wrote all that carefull code to make sure it passes the right type
to mount, and i did it for a very good reason:  mount -t auto is
inherently UNRELIABLE.

the reiser or ext3 people were lazy and just used -t auto for
everything, and guess what, it broke boot-floppies.  

i would thank you not to screw up my careful code by using the lazy
hack that is -t auto.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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