From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24031 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2001 01:14:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Oct 2001 01:14:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 18123 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2001 01:14:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16008 Received: (qmail 18111 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2001 01:14:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:41:04 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Oliver Kiddle Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: mount and linux Message-ID: <20011010204104.A4911@dman.com> References: <001c01c1516a$72a84c60$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <3BC41F42.4AE2219A@yahoo.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC41F42.4AE2219A@yahoo.co.uk>; from okiddle@yahoo.co.uk on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:13:22AM +0100 > On slightly out-of-date Debian /etc/filesystems doesn't exist at all. It > isn't Mandrake specific is it? What is the purpose of it and where does > it come from? Certainly it is a fair point about /proc/filesystems > limitations though so if /etc/filesystems allows us to correctly add > more supported filesystems, it should be used. It's used by the mount in util-linux; I'm not aware of who uses that mount and who doesn't. It's used in preference to /proc/filesystems for auto-probing. As such, I have absolutely no use for it. I'm starting to think that this would be better served by a style.