From: Bill McGonigle Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 02:51:11 -0400 Message-ID: <51FA055F.90000@bfccomputing.com> References: <51F94938.1040303@bfccomputing.com> <51F96964.4000608@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from borlaug.bfccomputing.com ([173.9.115.12]:55739 "EHLO borlaug.bfccomputing.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192Ab3HAGvc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:51:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51F96964.4000608@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/31/2013 03:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > well, kernelspace can't use libblkid. ah, right. But userspace could, and with your patch, basically do the same thing and mount using the UUID number stored in the superblock using the 'by-uuid' path. Sweet. > I'll send the ext4 version in a minute if you want to try it. that would be super - I'd be happy to test it soon. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: bill@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle