From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:09:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cubgrb$39e$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050207084709.GA30680@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu>
Followup to: <20050207084709.GA30680@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu>
By author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pozs=E1r_Bal=E1zs?= <pozsy@uhulinux.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Granted, I could override the default order by using a /etc/filesystems
> file. But the kernel should have a much more sane default on its own,
> namely "try vfat before msdos".
>
What it really means is that mount(8) should know this is a special
case; presumably it already knows to try ext3 over ext2.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-08 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-06 5:33 John Richard Moser
2005-02-06 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 16:29 ` John Richard Moser
2005-02-06 23:21 ` [PATCH] " Pozsar Balazs
2005-02-07 0:36 ` Al Viro
2005-02-07 0:42 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 2:48 ` Nuno Monteiro
2005-02-07 8:47 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 12:53 ` Michelle Konzack
2005-02-07 21:59 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-02-07 14:27 ` Nuno Monteiro
2005-02-08 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-02-07 6:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-07 11:29 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-07 12:45 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-02-07 14:00 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-08 0:23 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-08 2:24 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-06 11:15 ` Michelle Konzack
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