From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m2C7MVgO001676 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:22:32 -0700 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 75E5BF7406E for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id x5cXt6TH1meFqMs2 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:22:59 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] - remove mounpoint UUID code Message-ID: <20080312072259.GA26148@infradead.org> References: <47D20F78.7000103@sandeen.net> <1205196252.15982.69.camel@edge.scott.net.au> <47D5DE13.8030902@sandeen.net> <34665.192.168.3.1.1205266196.squirrel@mail.aconex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34665.192.168.3.1.1205266196.squirrel@mail.aconex.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: nscott@aconex.com Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs-oss On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 07:09:56AM +1100, nscott@aconex.com wrote: > I don't have any immediate plans. I can imagine it could be used to > stitch parts of the namespace together in a filesystem that supports > multiple devices (in a chunkfs kinda way) ... or maybe more simply > just an in-filesystem auto-mounter. *shrug*. But its there, the tools > support it (once again, I didn't see a userspace patch - hohum), so I > would vote for leaving it in its current form so some enterprising, > constructive young coder can try to make something useful from it > at some point. :) That kind of automounter really doesn't belong into the low-level filesystem. If we really wanted it it would go into the VFS, storing the uuid or other identifier for the mountpoint in an xattr. This is really just dead junk that should go away.