Re: [PATCH, RFC] - remove mounpoint UUID code

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Costello wrote:
> CXFS does use this to mount filesystems, i.e. on a client read the sb 
> get the uuid and use the uuid to lookup the MDS to request the mount...

Well, this isn't removing the sb uuid... it's this special file type
XFS_DINODE_FMT_UUID... which is cxfs using?

-Eric

> Having said that if it is removed then it will force us to look at 
> another method to mount a cxfs filesystem, and also remove the necessity 
> for cxfs clients to not read the superblock (which is the only metadata 
> cxfs clients read off disk at this point)...
> 
> Regards,
>