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

[Ian Costello <ianc@xxxxxxx>]

Eric,

My bad, cxfs uses the sb_uuid, should have looked a little closer at the 
patch. I assumed the worst from the heading (must have filtered the 
"point" out of the heading :)
Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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,
Thanks,

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