On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:41:19AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > I am not against this option; I am suggesting to add a explicit > > warning to the user about the risk of doing that, both on the man > > pages and into the program. The warning should say that this option > > is only for testing. Better ask for a confirmation (even with an > > undocumented switch like > > '--I-know-that-I-am-doing-something-really-dangerous'). > > meh. ext4 and xfs have had the ability to either set or change the > UUID for years, and I've not heard of any horror stories.
Because these filesystems do not detect their devices by uuid, it's mainly for the multi-device fs, but applies for single-device fs as well. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
