Re: XFS over device mapper dm-thin device

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 04:37:22PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/5/18 4:36 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> In retrospect I think we (I) should have left the "metadata" uuid as
> >> the one to match the log, not the user-facing one.
> > I suspect we can just change the log recovery code to accept either
> > sb_uuid or sb_metauuid if the metauuid feature bit is set and
> > change xfs_db to not rewrite the log when metauuid is used....
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> That was my first thought, but then newer userspace UUID changes
> won't be mountable on older kernels.   I don't think we can just
> change it w/o some thought re: compatibility...

So maybe we should use a log incompat bit and provide an alternative
command for the old way of changing the UUID in the log?

Cheers,

Dave.
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