[RFC] mount(8) can figure out fstype

Thu Jan 18 20:42:31 UTC 2007

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:49:36 -0500
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:

> Using this patch, I have been able to do:
> mount /dev/blah /mnt
> 
> and mount a UFS, cd9660, or FAT filesystem, depending on what filesystem
> is on the /dev/blah device.
> 
> Comments?

OpenBSD already has such a functionality. It uses readlabelfs(3) for
this. What disadvantages or advantages does it have beside your
implementation?