[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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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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