kern/164516: [ext2fs] unable to mount EXT2 filesystem

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:10:11PM +0000, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/164516; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe at uffe.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/164516: [ext2fs] unable to mount EXT2 filesystem
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:49:05 +0100
> 
>   >
>   > Not a bug. The file system type name is "ext2fs" not "ext2".
>   > Use "mount -t ext2fs /dev/md0 /mnt/tmp0" instead.
>   >
>  
>  Instead of reporting "Operation not supported by device"
>  Shouldn't it report unknown filesystem type ?

Please look through /usr/include/errno.h and let us know what error code
would represent "unknown filesystem type".  :-)

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