[Gllug] HFS formatted ZIP discs

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:07, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> If the fs type is given as auto then the filesystem is probed to see if
> it matches any of the types the kernel knows about.  The kernel only
> knows about those types which have been compiled into the kernel or
> those types whose module has been loaded.
> 
> So if you want to be able to automatically detect a range of filesystems
> you need to load all the respective modules or have them all compiled
> into the kernel.

I think that the kernel will also try anything listed in
/etc/filesystems (which has the same format as /proc/filesystems) - this
will result in module loading if you have the kernel autoloader turned
on. I have found this useful in the past to change the order of some
probes, for example to try vfat before msdos.

Simon

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