Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] vfs: Add open by file handle support

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:43:43AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:58:34 -0700, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Without the handle identifying the filesystem in some way this is  
> > mostly useless.  Encoding the device number would be a simple (though  
> > non-robust) way to do this, a better way would be with the filesystem  
> > UUID and adding an in-kernel UUID->sb mapping function (which is  
> > useful for other things as well).
> > 
> 
> But i understand this is an good requirement. I will see what best I
> can do.

For better or worse, the xfs_handle_t contains a fsid derived from
the UUID if the filesystem.

Cheers,

Dave.
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