On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:01:44PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2010-12-03, at 15:45, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > We're using statfs64.fs_fsid for this; I believe that's both stable
> > across reboots and distinguishes between subvolumes, so that's OK.
> > 
> > (That said, since fs_fsid doesn't work for other filesystems, we depend
> > on an explicit check for a filesystem type of "btrfs", which is
> > awful--btrfs won't always be the only filesystem that wants to do this
> > kind of thing, etc.)
> 
> Sigh, I wanted to be able to specify the NFS FSID directly from within the 
> kernel for Lustre many years already.  Glad to see that this is moving 
> forward.
> 
> Any chance we can add a ->get_fsid(sb, inode) method to export_operations
> (or something simiar), that allows the filesystem to generate an FSID based 
> on the volume and inode that is being exported?

No objection from here.

(Though I don't understand the inode argument--aren't "subvolumes"
usually expected to have separate superblocks?)

--b.
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