Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 01:48:43 EST
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:43:26PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Artem, do you remember why UBIFS didn't set s_uuid in first place?
It's an extremely odd field - only a hand full of file systems set it
(e.g. XFS doesn't, although according to Mimi IMA supports XFS), and
it's never even used outside of the IMA/EVM code.
We really need a feature flag that this field is valid that IMA can
check before adding more support for it.