From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Tinsley Subject: Re: getting UUID and label of a filesystem Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:32:28 -0600 Message-ID: <1068651147.2027.10.camel@dragonball> References: <3FAAB330.5040503@nrao.edu> <1068152277.2556.13.camel@redeeman.linux.dk> <1068152634.2455.37.camel@dragonball> <3FAFEE88.3040002@ysu.edu> <20031110134246.N10197@schatzie.adilger.int> <3FB2370E.4000102@ysu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-UALLm+YEdyaVPACkgzn9" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3FB2370E.4000102@ysu.edu> List-Id: To: John Dalbec Cc: Andreas Dilger , reiserfs-list@namesys.com --=-UALLm+YEdyaVPACkgzn9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:35, John Dalbec wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: > > "mount" has not been updated to use libblkid. I had always intended on > > doing that, but it was never in the top 10 on my todo list. I had agreement > > in principle from Andries Brouwer to use a libblkid in mount instead of > > having a duplicate set of LABEL/UUID parsing code there, but just lacked > > the time/incentive to do that part. > > > > It would probably benefit all reiserfs users to get this working, so that > > you can finally mount reiserfs filesystems by LABEL/UUID, so if someone > > has some time and wants to contribute back to reiserfs this is a fairly > > easy project (not kernel hacking ;-). > > Brian Tinsley wrote: > > I use labels on SuSE with no problem. Could be an incompatibility with > > your mount command, but I'm not sure. > > Has SuSE already updated the mount command to use libblkid then? Or did they > insert duplicate LABEL/UUID parsing code for ReiserFS? > John There is a libblkid on my SuSE 9 laptop, but I don't see it on Enterprise Server 8. The mount command on version 9 doesn't appear to be linked to libblkid, so it's probably a safe assumption to say that they modified the mount command on both. --=-UALLm+YEdyaVPACkgzn9--