From: Brendan Hide <brendan@swiftspirit.co.za>
To: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>, jshubin@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkfs.btrfs: allow UUID specification at mkfs time
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:25:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537360B2.50107@swiftspirit.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53731BE3.5010604@cn.fujitsu.com>
On 14/05/14 09:31, Wang Shilong wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 09:18 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Allow the specification of the filesystem UUID at mkfs time.
>>
>> (Implemented only for mkfs.btrfs, not btrfs-convert).
> Just out of curiosity, this option is used for what kind of use case?
> I notice Ext4 also has this option.:-)
Personally I can't think of any "average" or "normal" use case. The
simplest case however is in using predictable/predetermined UUIDs.
Certain things, such as testing or perhaps even large-scale automation,
are likely simpler to implement with a predictable UUID.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-14 1:18 [PATCH] mkfs.btrfs: allow UUID specification at mkfs time Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 7:31 ` Wang Shilong
2014-05-14 12:25 ` Brendan Hide [this message]
2014-05-14 13:34 ` Duncan
2014-05-14 14:42 ` James Shubin
2014-05-14 13:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 13:34 ` David Pottage
2014-05-14 14:39 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-05-14 14:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 15:14 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-05-14 15:27 ` David Sterba
2014-05-14 14:47 ` James Shubin
2014-05-14 15:35 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 16:01 ` David Sterba
2014-05-14 16:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 16:52 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-05-14 17:39 ` PATCH V3] " Eric Sandeen
2014-05-14 22:04 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-05-14 22:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-15 17:39 ` David Sterba
2014-05-15 17:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-16 17:24 ` David Sterba
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