Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically

Maxim Sobolev wrote:

Scott Long wrote:

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?


Well, we have dynamic /sbin now, so that it's only the matter of moving libmagic into /lib.

-Maxim

libmagic depends on libz. Let's not go down the path of populating
/lib with every convenience under the sun.

Scott

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