On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:38:53PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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 Withdrawn.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. Yes, we have precedence for doing things like that - v2 inodes, attr2, etc. See what you come up with ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
