From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
Cc: Anand Jain <Anand.Jain@oracle.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] btrfs: label should not contain return char
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:06:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537E2081.9080007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140522101431.6b2a9ee2@natsu>
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On 5/21/14, 11:14 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 21:14:07 -0500
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>>> (Random aside: why does btrfs support online fs relabeling, anyway?)
>>>>
>>>> -Eric
>>>
>>> Online you mean when mounted ?
>>
>> Yep - I'm just not sure who would ever want to do that.
>>
>> Aren't labels primarly used for mounting, during the mount process?
>
> Well if you want to change the label of your root filesystem, how else would
> you go about that? If Btrfs did not support this, then only while booted from a
> rescue LiveCD? That's quite a bit more involved and not even always feasible
> in case of remote machines with no IPMI or similar management.
>
> Extfs supports online change of the volume label as well, albeit probably not
> via a sysfs file, but with the tune2fs utility:
>
> tune2fs -L <name> /dev/blockdevice
Yeah, that just writes directly to the block device. :)
But ok, I guess relabeling root is a fair case.
- -Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 17:04 [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: label should not contain return char Anand Jain
2014-05-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: usage error should not be logged into system log Anand Jain
2014-05-20 6:38 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Anand Jain
2014-05-20 16:36 ` David Sterba
2014-05-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: label should not contain return char Eric Sandeen
2014-05-20 6:40 ` Anand Jain
2014-05-19 17:19 ` Roman Mamedov
2014-05-20 6:42 ` Anand Jain
2014-05-20 6:36 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] " Anand Jain
2014-05-20 16:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-22 2:05 ` Anand Jain
2014-05-22 2:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-22 4:14 ` Roman Mamedov
2014-05-22 16:06 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-05-20 16:33 ` David Sterba
2014-05-20 16:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-22 10:47 ` Anand Jain
2014-05-22 10:41 ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Anand Jain
2014-05-22 10:41 ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] btrfs: usage error should not be logged into system log Anand Jain
2014-05-22 11:21 ` Koen Kooi
2014-05-23 2:41 ` Anand Jain
2014-05-22 11:41 ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] btrfs: label should not contain return char David Sterba
2014-05-23 2:50 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] " Anand Jain
2014-05-23 2:50 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] btrfs: usage error should not be logged into system log Anand Jain
2014-05-26 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] btrfs: label should not contain return char David Sterba
2014-07-01 5:22 ` [PATCH v5] " Satoru Takeuchi
2014-07-01 6:46 ` Wang Shilong
2014-07-01 8:00 ` [PATCH v6] " Satoru Takeuchi
2014-07-01 8:29 ` Wang Shilong
2014-07-01 15:05 ` David Sterba
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