Proposal/RFC: new metadata-specific UUID for V5 supers

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Mon Apr 27 21:06:46 CDT 2015


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  Withdrawn.  ;)

-Eric



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