Re: [Libguestfs] guestfs-tools for *BSD images

Hi Brady, There is a related bug before: Bug 541618 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618> - guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:26 PM Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 12/08/21 11:52, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:18:30PM -0600, Brady Pratt wrote: >>> [ 1.998352] >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, > default >>> is ufstype=old >> >> The problem is this one and it's not easily resolvable. UFS isn't a >> single filesystem type, it's a clade of filesystems which all evolved >> from a common ancestor through the various BSDs, but crucially have >> the same magic number (so no way to differentiate them). For *BSD >> itself this isn't a problem since the same OS creates and consumes the >> filesystem. > > (I think it *should* be considered a problem even for the *BSDs; what > about moving disks between different BSD versions or flavors?) > >> But it's a problem for Linux which must be told which >> filesystem type to mount - and get it wrong, as you can see above, Bad >> Things happen. >> >> So it's not really possible to resolve this in libguestfs as we don't >> know the filesystem type until after we have mounted and inspected it. >> >> Rich. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Libguestfs mailing list > Libguestfs(a)redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs