On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, frantisek holop wrote:

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> hmm, on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 02:29:25PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that
>>> i think it doesnt matter what the user is, this shouldnt
>>> be happening.
>>
>> We make the source code available, and yet noone here has even sat down
>> for 30 seconds and gone and checked the kernel msdos mount code and realized
>> that it almost nothing it can validate a filesystem on.
>
> does that almost nothing include the partition type number?
> because i dont see why would the kernel msdos mount code
> even try to start mounting an msdos filesystem with type of A6.

Hi Frantisek.

It is not what happened. The -t msdos was forced by you. But you were not 
trying to mount a filesystem with type A6. A typo can happen but your 
mistake is in your interpretation of what has happened after the typo. 
Take a break and then think about it carefully.

Regards,
David