Re: [PATCH 3/3] ovl: Use real disk UUID for origin file handles

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 01:17:15PM -0300, André Almeida wrote:
> Em 14/01/2026 03:26, Christoph Hellwig escreveu:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 01:31:43AM -0300, André Almeida wrote:
>>> Some filesystem, like btrfs, supports mounting cloned images, but assign
>>> random UUIDs for them to avoid conflicts. This breaks overlayfs "index"
>>> check, given that every time the same image is mounted, it get's
>>> assigned a new UUID.
>>
>> ... and the fix is to not assign random uuid, but to assign a new uuid
>> to the cloned image that is persisted.  That might need a new field
>> to distintguish the stamped into the format uuid from the visible
>> uuid like the xfs metauuid, but not hacks like this.
>>
>
> How can I create this non random and persisting UUID? I was thinking of 
> doing some operation on top the original UUID, like a circular shift, some 
> sort of rearrangement of the original value that we can always reproduce. 
> Is this in the right direction do you think?

Just allocate an entirely new uuid?  That's what XFS did with the
metadata uuid (persistent and stapted into all metadata headers) vs
user visible uuid that can be changed.