Re: XFS over device mapper dm-thin device

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 08:11:44AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 08:31:21AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 2/8/18 2:25 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:53:40PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:35:12PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2/6/18 12:11 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > >>>> 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?
> > >>>
> > >>> Sure, if we're happy burning an incompat bit for this, sounds good.
> > >>
> > >> Or a log incompat bit?
> > > 
> > > That's what I suggested :P
> > 
> > And that's what I /meant/, sorry for the lack of specificity ;)
> 
> So we are all happy to burn a log incompat bit for this? 
> 
> /me wonders how many one liners we can string this out into :)

I thought we were doing haiku to approve patch ideas now. :(

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