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

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