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 at redhat.com> 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.
> >
>
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