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