Re: [reiserfs-dev] [PATCH] UUID & volume labels support for reiserfs

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 07:44:30 PM +0300 Oleg Drokin
<green@namesys.com> wrote:

> Does filling something with zeroes counts as "using the field"? ;)

We must be reading different versions of generate_random_uuid ;-)

> 
>> The point is that we should never add something to the kernel until our
>> utils package understands it.  Yes, this is a simple case, but if we want
> In fact, current reiserfsprogs understands these fields (look into the
> the struct super_block definition in reiserfsprogs). It just cannot
> change content of the fields.

/* Structure of super block on disk */
struct reiserfs_super_block
{
/*  0 */    struct reiserfs_super_block_v1 s_v1;
/* 76 */    char sb_mnt_version[16];
/* 92 */    char sb_mkfs_version[16];
/*108 */    char sb_fsck_version[16];
/*124 */    char sb_unused[204-16-16-16-SB_SIZE_V1] ;
/* zero filled by mkreiserfs */ };

Show me the part where it knows what a uuid is.  It should at least be able
to show the uuid set by the kernel.

Please don't take this the wrong way, this is a good (and simple) patch
that adds a cool feature.  We just need to do a better job of having the
utils support the features before sending the patch it.  It does a better
job of proving we've tested the feature and that kernel patch fully meets
our needs.

-chris