[poky] Strange ext filesystem error

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-10-26 18:22, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> I've noticed this behaviour on my Poky/Yocto based systems.
>> First, I format some device, in this case an MMC card, as ext3
>> (yes, my kernel supports ext3)
>>   # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
>> Then, when I go to mount it, I get this error:
>>   # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/disk
>>   EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>>
>> Any ideas why?  How can I get ext3 file system working?
>
> Sounds like once again the file mount uses to guess types is out of order.
> I think it's part of base-files but I don't have a chance to check right now...
>

Looks like that's it, thanks.  I think that list is completely wrong in
its ordering - one should always try to use the *most* capable type first.
The attached patch works fine and solves this problem for me.

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