Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Apr 18 2011 - 19:03:13 EST


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:57:27AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> > uuid:<value> is the option field  as 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?

I thought tune2fs on a mounted filesystem was always a
"you get to keep both pieces if it breaks" situation.

Dave

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