Re: util-linux bug: was Re: [PATCH 00/16 v3] f2fs: introduceflash-friendly file system

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:23:09AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> This is a bug in util-linux.
> 
> If 'blkid' doesn't recognise the filesystem, mount reads /etc/filesystems
> and tries everything listed there.  If that file ends with a '*', it should
> read /proc/filesystems and try everything else listed that (that doesn't
> start with 'nodev').
> 
> However it currently ignores the '*' and just adds everything

 Fixed. Thanks for the report!

> The following patch (against git://github.com/karelzak/util-linux.git) fixes
> it for me,  though I suspect it should possible ignore 'ENODEV' too -
> otherwise if /etc/filesystems contains an invalid filesystem name, it will
> silently ignore all others.

 Good idea, implemented.

 ... all will be fixed in stable v2.22.2 release.

    Karel

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