Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:20, Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:21:03 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:09:34PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>> Â> however, the output of mount looks very confused..
>> Â>
>> Â> .38:
>> Â> /dev/mapper/vg_adamo-lv_home on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered)
>> Â>
>> Â> .39:
>> Â> - on /home type 79a9-4526-888c-1f86d35a6704 (rw,relatime,ext4)
>> Â>
>> Â> It looks like /proc/self/mountinfo broke abi.
>> Â>
>> Â> .38:
>> Â> 48 45 253:3 / /home rw,relatime - ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_adamo-lv_home rw,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered
>> Â>
>> Â> .39:
>> Â> 46 22 253:3 / /home rw,relatime uuid:f3971858-79a9-4526-888c-1f86d35a6704 - ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_adamo-lv_home rw,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered
>>
>> looks like this was caused by 93f1c20bc8cdb757be50566eff88d65c3b26881f
>>
>> perhaps adding that string to the end of the line would preserve what mount expects ?
>
> uuid:<value> is the option field Âas per
> Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt. There was an error in libmount
> parsing which got fixed upstream recently

Just a simple question about this approach in general? A filesystem
UUID can be changed on disk at any time (tune2fs -U ...).

Your code looks like you copy the bytes to the in-kernel superblock
structure without noticing any later changes on disk? How is that
supposed to work?

Kay
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