docs/115571: Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in thehandbook

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Daniel Geržo wrote:
> 
> Hello Lars,
> 
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:04:57 GMT, Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>Number:         115571
> >>Category:       docs
> >>Synopsis:       Use mount -t msdosfs instead of mount_msdosfs in the
> 
> > On
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble.html
> > could you please change mount_msdosfs to mount -t msdosfs?
> > The former should no longe be executed manually.
> 
> May I ask you why do you suspect that mount_msdosfs should
> not be user any more?
> 

Hi Daniel,

please compare the number of mount_* binaries in a 6.x and a CURRENT
System. 

<FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT> [maggie:/sbin]
lars at ttyp6 > ls mount_* | wc -l
       9

<FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE> [NB011798:/sbin]
lars at ttyp2 > ls mount_* | wc -l
      18


In src/sbin/mount/mount.c you find the following:

/* XXX: We need to get away from implementing external mount
 *      programs for every filesystem, and move towards having
 *      each filesystem properly implement the nmount() system call.
 */


And there are several mails on mailinglists on that topic. E.g.:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-May/072783.html


So advocating mount -t in the handbook is more future-proof. :-)


Best regards,

Lars
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