Re: [PATCH] vxfs fix

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:19:46 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> When mount continues to try all types, it may try V7.
> That always succeeds, there is no test for magic or so,
> and after garbage has been mounted as a V7 filesystem,
> the kernel crashes or hangs or fails in other sad ways.
> Have not tried to debug.

That's interesting. IIRC, v7 has no magic in superblock. At all.
It shouldn't crash the box, though - I'll look into that.

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