From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Bill McGonigle <bill@bfccomputing.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:23:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FA998A.8050305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FA055F.90000@bfccomputing.com>
On 8/1/13 1:51 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 03:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> well, kernelspace can't use libblkid.
>
> ah, right. But userspace could, and with your patch, basically do
> the same thing and mount using the UUID number stored in the
> superblock using the 'by-uuid' path. Sweet.
yeah. Right now mount can't parse i.e. "journal_path=UUID=$UUID" type
options as it can do for the device specification, but if the /dev/disk/by-uuid
paths are set up by the time you mount the fs, that works too.
>> I'll send the ext4 version in a minute if you want to try it.
>
> that would be super - I'd be happy to test it soon.
K, it's on the list now. :)
-Eric
> -Bill
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 17:28 [PATCH] ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option Bill McGonigle
2013-07-31 19:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-08-01 6:51 ` Bill McGonigle
2013-08-01 17:23 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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2013-07-30 22:26 Eric Sandeen
2013-07-31 14:05 ` Jan Kara
2013-07-31 14:16 ` Eric Sandeen
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