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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:06:30 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@...il.com>, util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@...eyko.com>,
	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@...sung.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, arnd@...db.de, tytso@....edu,
	chur.lee@...sung.com, cm224.lee@...sung.com,
	jooyoung.hwang@...sung.com
Subject: Re: util-linux bug: was Re: [PATCH 00/16 v3] f2fs: introduce
 flash-friendly file system

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:27:00 +0100 Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Looks good,
thanks,
NeilBrown


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