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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: sysfs add devinfo/fsid to retrieve fsid from the device
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:16:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211116171621.GU28560@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33e179f8b9341c88754df639b77dafaa1ffec0d1.1634829757.git.anand.jain@oracle.com>

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:31:17PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> In the case of the seed device, the fsid can be different from the mounted
> sprout fsid.  The userland has to read the device superblock to know the
> fsid but, that idea fails if the device is missing. So add a sysfs
> interface devinfo/<devid>/fsid to show the fsid of the device.
> 
> For example:
>  $ cd /sys/fs/btrfs/b10b02a5-f9de-4276-b9e8-2bfd09a578a8
> 
>  $ cat devinfo/1/fsid
>  c44d771f-639d-4df3-99ec-5bc7ad2af93b
>  $ cat  devinfo/3/fsid
>  b10b02a5-f9de-4276-b9e8-2bfd09a578a8

From user perspective, it's another fsid, one is in the path, so I'm
wondering if it should be named like read_fsid or sprout_fsid or if the
seed/sprout information should be put into another directory completely.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-16 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21 15:31 [PATCH v2 0/2] provide fsid in sysfs devinfo Anand Jain
2021-10-21 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: sysfs convert scnprintf and snprintf to use sysfs_emit Anand Jain
2021-10-21 16:19   ` David Sterba
2021-10-21 16:25     ` David Sterba
2021-10-21 16:27       ` Anand Jain
2021-10-21 16:27     ` Anand Jain
2021-10-21 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: sysfs add devinfo/fsid to retrieve fsid from the device Anand Jain
2021-11-16 17:16   ` David Sterba [this message]
2021-11-17  3:29     ` Anand Jain
2021-12-01 16:56       ` Anand Jain
2021-12-07 18:56       ` David Sterba
2021-12-07 18:56   ` David Sterba
2021-11-09 10:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] provide fsid in sysfs devinfo Anand Jain

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