From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Cc: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Changing label of a mounted XFS filesystem
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 09:12:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703231212.GV4453@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140703141408.GA17657@citd.de>
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 04:14:08PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> On 03.07.2014 20:07, Jeff Liu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 07/03/2014 07:29 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a particular reason that the label of a mounted XFS fileystem
> > > can't be changed?
> >
> > Maybe since we have no user request for this function? :)
Most likely. It's currently done by xfs_db, which is an offline
tool.
> > > The man-page of xfs_admin gives a blanket "Devices that are mounted
> > > cannot be modified" but no explanation for why that is.
> > >
> > > In my case it's the label of the root-filesystem i want to change. So to
> > > change it i would have to boot the computer with some kind of live or
> > > rescure-system. Or i would need to temporarily connect the device to
> > > another computer, both aren't really nice hoops to jump through just to
> > > change a few characters.
> > >
> > > The only thing i can compare this to is ext2 and with ext2 (/boot
> > > partition, so it really is ext2) i can change the label to my hearts
> > > content, even the device is mounted.
> > >
> > > For my case i could live with it if i could remount the filesystem RO,
> > > change the label and then having to reboot the machine, still nicer than
> > > the other 2 options.
> >
> > Btrfs support set/change label on a mounted file system via ioctl(2), maybe we
> > can implement it if that sounds useful to our users.
>
> I would vote for that, i've run into this particular brickwall several
> times over the years.
There's a bunch of things I'd like to make online modifiable that
currently can only be done offline by xfs_db and other tools. I'll
add this to the list, and hopefully when I get a little time I'll do
something about it...
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-03 11:29 Changing label of a mounted XFS filesystem Matthias Schniedermeyer
2014-07-03 12:07 ` Jeff Liu
2014-07-03 14:14 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2014-07-03 23:12 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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