From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:13:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20080902191333.GL3086@webber.adilger.int> References: <1220194366-12731-1-git-send-email-dedekind@infradead.org> <1220194366-12731-13-git-send-email-dedekind@infradead.org> <1220262187.2982.58.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080901150147.GA20323@infradead.org> <1220339032.4036.31.camel@sauron> <20080902170954.GE3086@webber.adilger.int> <1220376569.2982.225.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Artem Bityutskiy , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Hunter To: David Woodhouse Return-path: Received: from sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM ([192.18.43.133]:49697 "EHLO sca-es-mail-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751815AbYIBTNt (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:13:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <1220376569.2982.225.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sep 02, 2008 18:29 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Yes, putting st_dev in f_fsid probably isn't a good thing to do. > > I realised that we already have the > f_fsid field in struct statfs, and we might as well just use that. That > does seem to be what it was _designed_ for, after all. My bad - I had looked back in email archives about this issue and got the export operation solution stuck in my head... Yes, using f_fsid is the right way to do this, assuming NFSD plays along. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.