Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:44:30 +0300 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] [PATCH] UUID & volume labels support for reiserfs |
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Hello!
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:38:32AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > >> >> This should not be applied until an updated (non beta) reiserfsprogs > >> >> package that supports these features has been released. > >> > Hey, reserving some space in superblock won't hurt. > >> Reserving it is fine ;-) Using it isn't a good idea until the progs > > So we did it (reserved) ;) > > We do not use it. (generating of UUID does not count) > Yes, generating a uuid and storing in the super block counts as using the > field ;-) Does filling something with zeroes counts as "using the field"? ;)
> 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.
> to call reiserfs stable, there are some basic rules we need to start > following. Sure.
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