[Bug 1071546] Re: can't mount XFS filesystems

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

Determined that the cause was that the kernel hadn't loaded the xfs module.
While this is understandable behavior in retrospect, it is still extremely frustrating.  Almost all drivers except filesystem drivers get dynamically loaded as needed by udev/systemd.  Perhaps mount could be modified to check if the requested fs type is usable with the currently loaded modules, and try to load the required modules if it isn't, and only report an error if that fails.

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Title:
  can't mount XFS filesystems

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  trying to mount an XFS filesystem from the commandline via `mount -t xfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt` fails with error:
    unrecognized filesystem type: xfs

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: mount 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature:
   
  Uname: Linux 3.5.7-local x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 25 19:36:44 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-14 (132 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (5 days ago)

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