Re: [issue1538] mountroot should probe file systems

[Alex Hornung <ahornung@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/11/2010 18:29, Matthew Dillon (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
>      The disklabel also has the filesystem type stored in it for each
>      partition.  The mount command can just probe that.  We can add an
>      ioctl if necessary.
Not all partitions have a disklabel, so it would be somewhat limited.

>      I would rather NOT try to auto-probe filesystems since different
>      filesystems put their volume header in different places.  For example,
>      it is possible for both the UFS and HAMMER volume headers to be present
>      (I've done it), though of course only one of the two will actually be
>      the correct filesystem.
I think a solution to this would be the hammer newfs and UFS newfs 
overwriting enough of the first few blocks to avoid this from occurring...

Cheers,
Alex