On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:22 +0530, Tom Sparrow wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to debug why I am not able to mount a
> filesystem on my
> > system, I
> > > am tyring to do that from kernel. I need to know what are
> the entry
> > points
> > > in the kernel when the mount system call is called and
> where kernel
> > looks
> > > for the filesystem types?
> >
> > Did you check the below path ?
> >
> > do_new_mount -> do_kern_mount -> get_fs_type ->
> find_filesystem
>
>
> Thanks this is exact information I was looking for.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks -
> > Manish
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > By the way, the failure is due to not recognizing the file
> system
> type,
> > I
> > > have already configured and compiled the kernel with the
> that
> specfic
> > file
> > > system.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Bizhan
>
>
> I have a question in continuation...I dont have kernel source
> installed on my linux box....Want to know what all filesystems are
> supported by currently running kernel???...
Execute this command.
[cha...@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev cpuset
nodev binfmt_misc
...
..
This was the output on my system.
When the filesystem specific module is loaded, the list is appended.
Grep for your filesystem in the output.
HTH.
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