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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+
+import sys
+
+
+def filter_fsname(name):
+    # File system magics are sometimes not unique, because file systems got new
+    # revisions or got renamed. Let's prefer newer over older here, and thus
+    # ignore the old names.
+
+    return name in {
+        "cpuset",    # magic taken over by cgroupfs
+        "devtmpfs",  # not a file system of its own, but just a "named superblock" of tmpfs
+        "ext2",      # ext4 is the newest revision of ext2 + ext3
+        "ext3",
+        "fuseblk",   # closely related to fuse; they share a single magic, but the latter is more common
+        "gfs",       # magic taken over by gfs2
+        "msdos",     # vfat is the newest revision of msdos
+        "ncp",       # ncpfs (not ncp) was the last name of the netware `file_system_type`
+                     # name before it was removed in 2018
+        "nfs",       # nfs4 is the newest revision of nfs
+        "pvfs2",     # orangefs is the new name of pvfs2
+        "smb3",      # smb3 is an alias for cifs
+    }
+
+
+gperf_file = sys.argv[1]
+keywords_section = False
+
+for line in open(gperf_file):
+    if line[0] == "#":
+        continue
+
+    if keywords_section:
+        name, ids = line.split(",", 1)
+
+        name = name.strip()
+        if filter_fsname(name):
+            continue
+
+        ids = ids.strip()
+        assert ids[0] == "{"
+        assert ids[-1] == "}"
+        ids = ids[1:-1]
+
+        for id in ids.split(","):
+            print(f"case (statfs_f_type_t) {id.strip()}:")
+
+        print(f'        return "{name}";')
+
+    if line.startswith("%%"):
+        keywords_section = True