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Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still
> > have a giant stack of wildcards in all these random filesystems in the
> > kernel, are they going to behave sanly when told to mount a partition
> > not containing thier fstype?  or will they fuckup and kill the kernel? 
> 
> If that happens, then it's Al Viro's problem,

i don't care whose problem it is, when the problem breaks
boot-floppies assigning blame is not something im concerned with,
fixing the problem is.

and for this problem the only viable solution is avoiding -t auto like
the Black Death.

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

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