Re: [PATCH, RFC] - remove mounpoint UUID code

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Nathan Scott wrote:


(hope you didn't too much mind my quoting you in this thread) ;)

> Since effectively all versions of XFS support this feature ondisk,
> including complete support in recovery, it would be better IMO to
> leave it in for someone to implement/experiment with the syscall
> and auto-mounting userspace support.  That would then require no
> new feature bits, mkfs/repair changes, etc.  There is effectively
> zero cost to leaving it there - and non-zero cost in removing it,
> if our seriously bad regression-via-cleanup history is anything
> to go by ... :|

the only cost to leaving it is having another instance of "ok now what
the heck is THIS?!" ... death by a thousand cuts of xfs complexity.  But
yeah, removing it has some risk too.

> It would be really unfortunate to remove this, and then find that
> it was useful to someone (who didn't know about it at this time).
> OTOH, if there is definately never ever any chance this can ever
> be useful, then it should indeed be removed. :)

Well I'm not hung up about it.  If anyone thinks it'll be useful, I'm
not bothered by leaving it as is.  So, Nathan, what are your plans for
this code? *grin*

-Eric