On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Please give XFS some credit. It has been an enterprise quality filesystem for well over a decade.
=== man mount
<snip> Mount options for xfs <snip> nouuid Don't check for double mounted filesystems using the filesystem uuid. This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes. ===
Well, it didn't tell me that. And it would give me trouble mounting my snapshots because now I have to check for which filesystem is in use which is just ....more work. If there is anything true about computers is that you have to avoid doing more work, because around that corner there is always again more work, and it never ends. Suddenly a simple "mount" command is no longer fool-proof. And now you need a fool-proof way to discover the filesystem type of a block device (LV). I guess that means parsing blkid. Nevertheless, more work. So no, no credit here. It makes life harder by requiring specialized commands (or options) to simply mount it. It's a bit like Tar that includes some device number in the archives it creates. Why it does this is beyond me, a path is supposed to be uniquely identified by.... path. So you have to pass it an option --no-check-device or something to work with LVM. Constantly running into issues like this. No credit ;-). Regards,.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org