[PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Apr 11 22:48:28 PDT 2017


On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:43:26PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Artem, do you remember why UBIFS didn't set s_uuid in first place?

It's an extremely odd field - only a hand full of file systems set it
(e.g. XFS doesn't, although according to Mimi IMA supports XFS), and
it's never even used outside of the IMA/EVM code.

We really need a feature flag that this field is valid that IMA can
check before adding more support for it.



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