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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:48:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902214841.GA9204@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220390769.2985.6.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:26:09PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > We also called the filesystem part of the NFS filehandle in a few
> > places, and for those it's correct that it should be stable.  Currently
> > the fsid is either created from the dev_t in kernelspace or from
> > uuids extracted through libuuid in userspace.
> 
> Or from the f_fsid returned in statfs(), as of a week or so ago.

I think that's a rather bad idea.  As mentioned before f_fsid is
basically random.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-31 14:52 UBIFS updates for 2.6.27 Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: fix zero-length truncations Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: always read hashed-key nodes under TNC mutex Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: allow for racing between GC and TNC Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: do not update min_idx_lebs in stafs Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: push empty flash hack down Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: remove incorrect index space check Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: improve statfs reporting Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: fix assertion Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: add forgotten gc_idx_lebs component Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: introduce LEB overhead Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: improve statfs reporting even more Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-31 14:52 ` [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-01  9:43   ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-01 11:16     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-01 11:28       ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-01 11:43         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-01 11:50           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-01 11:56             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-01 15:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-02  7:03       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-02 17:09         ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-02 17:29           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-02 19:13             ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-02 19:32               ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-02 21:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-02 21:26             ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-02 21:48               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-02 22:12                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-03  6:20               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-02 22:32             ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-03  9:44     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-09-03 10:14       ` David Woodhouse

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