From: Bill McGonigle <bill@bfccomputing.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 02:51:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FA055F.90000@bfccomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F96964.4000608@redhat.com>
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.
> 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.
-Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 6:51 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 [this message]
2013-08-01 17:23 ` Eric Sandeen
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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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