Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT) | From | Richard Russon <> | Date | 19 Feb 2002 11:52:18 +0000 |
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Hi Jos,
> The first question I want answered: Should I just call myself stupid for > trying to mount NTFS as VFAT, or should we consider this a real issue that > needs fixing ?
Stupid? No. Fixing? Yes.
Whatever you throw at mount, you want it to fail_safe_. i.e. in the worst case, do nothing.
> While mounting a partition, the vfs layer tries to determine the partition > type,
Without any help, mount (userspace) tries to determine the partition type. It understands the magics of a LOT of filesystems.
It looks for the NTFS magic before the DOS magic (or any of its variants).
> and passes that info to the filesystem driver
Which is passed to the VFS, and the to the driver which performs some more rigid tests (hopefully :-)
Cheers, FlatCap (Rich) ntfs@flatcap.org
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