Hello Aneesh, I'm currently working on a man page for name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at(), and I have a question relating to a point that probably needs to be covered in the man page. Back in July 2010, in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/41782/focus=43131 you said: [[ mount id should not be looked at as a persistent identifier. It should be used to derive a persistent identifier from /proc/self/mountinfo. The persistent identifier could be the combination of device properties, file system properties or the uuid which is going to be an optional tag in /proc/self/mountinfo. ]] In the man page, I'd like to briefly describe how one derives such a persistent ID from mountinfo. AFAICS, the optional UUID tag in /proc/self/mountinfo has not come to pass. So, what then is the recommended practice for deriving the persistent ID? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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
