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

Oleksij Rempel ore at pengutronix.de
Mon May 8 22:52:30 PDT 2017



On 05/09/2017 07:37 AM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Oleksij Rempel <ore at pengutronix.de
> <mailto:ore at pengutronix.de>> wrote:
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>     On 05/02/2017 09:37 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
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>         Amir,
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>         Am 02.05.2017 um 09:19 schrieb Amir Goldstein:
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>             On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Richard Weinberger
>             <richard at nod.at <mailto:richard at nod.at>> wrote:
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>                 Am 24.04.2017 um 17:47 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
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>                         So, if some flag should be implemented, who
>                         should do it? :)
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>                     I'll not do it for you. ;)
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>                 Please also see
>                 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=149327990608749&w=2
>                 <http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=149327990608749&w=2>
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>             Richard,
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>             Considering the facts that:
>             1. I proposed the said flag and Al didn't think it was
>             needed [1]
>             2. ext4 already sets s_uuid without any flag for a long time now
>             3. A similar patch was queued for v4.12 to set s_uuid for
>             xfs without any flag
>
>             I think it would be right to take Oleksij's patch as is.
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>             FYI, my current work on 'constant inode numbers for
>             overlayfs' requires that
>             underlying filesystem had set a non-zero s_uuid. Not sure if
>             that matters for
>             ubifs+overlayfs users.
>
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>         If VFS maintainers are fine with that, I'll take it.
>         From UBIFS' POV it does not matter much. :-)
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>     Ping to VFS maintainers?
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>
> What ping? Al made it clear that a flag is not needed.
> BTW, xfs s_uuid patch was merged to master.


I'm talking about ubifs patch.



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