On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:06:03AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Do not allow xfs_db (or the xfs_admin frontend) to change the UUID > of a V5 filesystem; this will cause UUID mismatches across the > filesystem, and we currently have no mechanism to update them all. > Changing only the superblock UUID makes all other metadata look > invalid, and xfs_repair reacts by junking everything. > > Addresses-Debian-Bug: 782012 > Reported-by: F. Stoyan <fstoyan@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > diff --git a/db/sb.c b/db/sb.c > index 6cb665d..f31f4a2 100644 > --- a/db/sb.c > +++ b/db/sb.c > @@ -363,6 +363,18 @@ uuid_f( > return 0; > } > > + /* > + * For now, changing the UUID of V5 superblock filesystems is > + * not supported; we do not have the infrastructure to fix all > + * other metadata when a new superblock UUID is generated. > + */ Unaligned start of comment above. :) Otherwise looks fine to me: Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> > + if (xfs_sb_version_hascrc(&mp->m_sb) && > + strcasecmp(argv[1], "rewrite")) { > + dbprintf(_("%s: only 'rewrite' supported on V5 fs\n"), > + progname); > + return 0; > + } > + > if (!strcasecmp(argv[1], "generate")) { > platform_uuid_generate(&uu); > } else if (!strcasecmp(argv[1], "nil")) { > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs