From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:33:15 -0800 (PST) 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 m284X4Io030966 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:33:07 -0800 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4C372F42EDC for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id jUKY0lhHteQUaVHy for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:33:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47D2171D.7070202@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:33:33 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] - remove mounpoint UUID code References: <47D20F78.7000103@sandeen.net> <47D216A3.9040406@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <47D216A3.9040406@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: ianc@melbourne.sgi.com Cc: xfs-oss Ian Costello wrote: > CXFS does use this to mount filesystems, i.e. on a client read the sb > get the uuid and use the uuid to lookup the MDS to request the mount... Well, this isn't removing the sb uuid... it's this special file type XFS_DINODE_FMT_UUID... which is cxfs using? -Eric > Having said that if it is removed then it will force us to look at > another method to mount a cxfs filesystem, and also remove the necessity > for cxfs clients to not read the superblock (which is the only metadata > cxfs clients read off disk at this point)... > > Regards, >