[Libguestfs] guestfs-tools for *BSD images

[Brady Pratt]

Thank you for the explanation!

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:52 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 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.  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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