[RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically

[Scott Long]

Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was thinking of doing something like that.  You can basically
>>>> get the same info by doing something like:
>>>> file - < /dev/ad0s1e
>>>> /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian)
>>>> file - < /dev/ad0s4
>>>> /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem
>>>>
>>>> I leaned away from this approach in mount(8) because:
>>>> - I didn't want to tie mount(8) to file(1)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not?  We have libmagic for purposes like this.
>>>
>>
>> This is an interesting idea.  However, it has the potential to
>> add a dependency on /usr to the early boot environment.  Maybe it
>> could be done via rtld?
> 
> 
> Well, we have dynamic /sbin now, so that it's only the matter of moving 
> libmagic into /lib.
> 
> -Maxim

libmagic depends on libz.  Let's not go down the path of populating
/lib with every convenience under the sun.

Scott