Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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On 02/07/2005 09:36 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:33:43AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
>>>
>>>>I dunno.  I can never understand the innards of the kernel devs' minds.
>>>
>>>filesystem detection isn't handled at the kerne level.
>>
>>Yeah, but the link order could be changed... Patch inlined.
> 
> 
> And just what does the link order (or changes thereof) have to do with that?

because some distributions (eg gentoo) make a symlink to /proc/filesystems

jupiter root # ls -l /etc/filesystems
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Oct 25 11:18 /etc/filesystems ->
../proc/filesystems

and then its impossible to change the order. (unless you make a "hand
made" file of course).

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