Recognising Partitions

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 02.11.2004 kl. 18.55 skrev Michal Jaegermann:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:43:32PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:29 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > >  which selinux can make
> > > unmountable there by adding attributes - ugh!,
> > 
> > This is not SELinux's fault.  If you created ACLs there things also blow
> > up.
> 
> I am not saying that this SELinux's fault.  But if a filesystem got
> mounted in a "stealth mode" that something may get "helpful" and
> will add for you bits-and-pieces which you never wanted there in 
> the first place and which will mess up that filesystem for original
> purposes.  That is one of reason why an indiscriminate mounting of
> everything which looks like mountable is really bad.
> 
>    Michal

Is it possible to have the kernel to detect an "old-format" ext, and
mount it in "compitability mode"? And if you wanted to add the extra
bits'n'pieces - tune2fs --something?