Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 18:13:27 EST


Followup to: <20050207084709.GA30680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pozs=E1r_Bal=E1zs?= <pozsy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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

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