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BUG 797165 - rationalise uuid kernel code for XFS

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Subject: BUG 797165 - rationalise uuid kernel code for XFS
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Submitter : nathans                   Submitter Domain : engr               
Assigned Engineer : btg               Assigned Domain : sgi.com             
Assigned Group : xfs-linux            Category : software                   
Customer Reported : F                 Priority : 4                          
Project : xfs-linux                   Status : open                         
Description :
stick this in a bug so it isn't forgotten...

On Jul 21,  8:40am, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Subject: Re: LVM vs. kiobuf I/O
> > >         - Kernel uuid generation support
> > ...
> ...
> 
> I think there's a bunch of stuff which can be rationalised
> there too...
> - uuid_hash is unused, can definately go;
> - uuid_hash64 is only used in xfs_mountfs_int to setup vfs_fsid
>   (of vfs_t), which doesn't seem to be doing much useful, so
>   that can probably go;
> - if that can go, we can probably remove all of xfs_uuid_mount,
>   since its only ever called to setup vfs_fsid ... and so I
>   wonder do we need xfs_uuidtabmon, xfs_uuidtab_size, and
>   xfs_uuidtab anymore, along with the associated unmount logic?
> - then we could go back and see what uuid code we still need
>   (uuid_create still used in xfs_inode.c, icalloc, IFMNT case;
>   but there's probably not much else needed)
> 
> Anyone who knows the mount code better than me have thoughts
> on this (have I missed a dependence above)?  Is this something
> we'll need later perhaps, or can this stuff all really go?
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan
>-- End of excerpt from Nathan Scott

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