Overlayfs would like to make use of underlying filesystem's
sb->s_uuid, but not all filesytems fill this field.
Define a flag to be set by filesystems that do fill the s_uuid
field, so let consumers like overlayfs know that the content
of this field is valid.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 80daadf..de913b4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1272,6 +1272,9 @@ struct mm_struct;
/* sb->s_iflags to limit user namespace mounts */
#define SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE 0x00000010 /* fstype already mounted */
+/* sb->s_iflags for optional information available in super_block struct */
+#define SB_I_HAVE_UUID 0x00000100 /* s_uuid */
+
/* Possible states of 'frozen' field */
enum {
SB_UNFROZEN = 0, /* FS is unfrozen */
--
2.7.4
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