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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 11:07:29 -0500
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] [PATCH] UUID & volume labels support for
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On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 06:58:26 PM +0300 Oleg Drokin
<green@namesys.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
>> >     Attached is the patch that reserves space for volume label and UUID
>> > in reiserfs v3.6 superblock.     It also generates random UUID for
>> > volumes converted from 3.5 to 3.6 format by the kernel.     Original
>> > patch author is Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>.     Please
>> > apply.
>> 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
understand it.  Our policy should be to never require a progs update in a
stable kernel series (just like most stable parts of the kernel).

But, the progs are improving so quickly that we should bend this rule a
little bit.  Another example is the unlink truncate patch never should have
been sent to Marcelo without a non-beta reiserfsprogs that understood it.
Neither should this patch (even though it is a much smaller problem).

-chris

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