Re: VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 08:34:03 EST

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jos Hulzink wrote:

> While mounting a partition, the vfs layer tries to determine the partition

It doesn't and it shouldn't. mount(8) does, so there's no reason to do that
in kerenl.

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