On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:45:43PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Well, I do not see how there is a difference. From my reading of the > code it seems that fsid is composed of device's minor/major and export > point's inode ino. > > I propose to replace (if supported by fs) device's minor/major by some > unique number returned by fs itself. Should be no worse than what we > have now. Wouldn't some ways of identifying filesystems (ext2/3 labels?) more easily be done from userspace? Would it be possible to do what you want from userspace using the fsid export option? There's no reason the fsid= option has to be set manually; you could generate /etc/exports lines (or exportfs commands) automatically. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
