On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:38:53PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 4/27/15 9:06 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 4/27/15 8:20 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >
> >> I think that labels are a far better way of dealing with this
> >> problem. Get rid of the UUID mount checking (and hence the nouuid
> >> mount option), and tell people to use by-label instead of by-uuid to
> >> identify their filesystems when doing clones and snapshots. Labels
> >> make it much easier for humans to identify the filesystem than
> >> UUIDs...
> >
> > I suppose so. Withdrawn. ;)
>
> One more thought. ;)
>
> It'd be quite possible to keep defaults compatible with old kernels,
> and only set the new feature if/when a user requests a UUID change.
>
> If UUID changes are rare, it'll rarely matter; if they are required,
> it'll be possible. I might send a patch just to make the discussion
> a bit more concrete.
Yes, we have precedence for doing things like that - v2 inodes,
attr2, etc. See what you come up with ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
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