On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:02:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:48:13PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 08:59:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Remove the dead code dealing with the UUID fork format that was never > > > implemented in Linux (and neither in IRIX as far as I know). > > > > I think I need a little more context on this -- for what purpose was the > > UUID format created, and has it ever been used anywhere? When I was > > working on the ifork verifiers/scrub I noticed that we'd never actually > > accept anything with that format. > > > > (I'm ok with removing it, I just want to know what I'm killing before I > > commit to it.) > > For that you'd need to find people that were around at SGI in the 90s.. > > Note that we already removed it briefly in 2008, but unlike my patch > that didn't keep the padding so broken log recovery. > > relevant xfs-import commits: > > Commit that adds the di_format values: > c049a3e8d776a76a1ba3adaf168a406a8ee52172 > > then various commits in early development add UUID inode format > bits, but none seems to actually ever generate it. > > 1st removal with minor comments on the history: > 415c805b441845dfc2be7d887f995ea8875358e9 Yummmmmmmmmy! Looks ok, Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --D > > Revert of the above: > 4ddd5953fad77a14f665fefa06899ef9f388b134 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
