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Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:13:33 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid

On Sep 02, 2008  18:29 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yes, putting st_dev in f_fsid probably isn't a good thing to do.
> 
> I realised that we already have the
> f_fsid field in struct statfs, and we might as well just use that. That
> does seem to be what it was _designed_ for, after all.

My bad - I had looked back in email archives about this issue and got
the export operation solution stuck in my head...

Yes, using f_fsid is the right way to do this, assuming NFSD plays along.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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