On 4/27/15 9:06 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 4/27/15 8:20 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > >> I think that labels are a far better way of dealing with this >> problem. Get rid of the UUID mount checking (and hence the nouuid >> mount option), and tell people to use by-label instead of by-uuid to >> identify their filesystems when doing clones and snapshots. Labels >> make it much easier for humans to identify the filesystem than >> UUIDs... > > I suppose so. Withdrawn. ;) One more thought. ;) It'd be quite possible to keep defaults compatible with old kernels, and only set the new feature if/when a user requests a UUID change. If UUID changes are rare, it'll rarely matter; if they are required, it'll be possible. I might send a patch just to make the discussion a bit more concrete. Thanks, -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
