> The first question I want answered: Should I just call myself stupid for
> trying to mount NTFS as VFAT, or should we consider this a real issue that
> needs fixing ?
Stupid? No.
Fixing? Yes.
Whatever you throw at mount, you want it to fail_safe_. i.e. in the
worst case, do nothing.
> While mounting a partition, the vfs layer tries to determine the partition
> type,
Without any help, mount (userspace) tries to determine the partition
type. It understands the magics of a LOT of filesystems.
It looks for the NTFS magic before the DOS magic (or any of its variants).
> and passes that info to the filesystem driver
Which is passed to the VFS, and the to the driver which performs some
more rigid tests (hopefully :-)
Cheers,
FlatCap (Rich)
ntfs@flatcap.org
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