Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] fstests: verify f_fsid for cloned filesystems
"Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:25:48 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 07:21:15AM +0800, Anand Suveer Jain wrote: > > > >>> just in case there *are* programs foolish enough to > >>> use (fsid,ino) as a uniqueness check. > >> > >> On the other hand, if a program needs a unique ID, do we currently have > >> any way to get one? > > > > I don't think there is a way to get a globally unique identifier for a > > filesystem image except for the meta_uuid filesystems, and even then > > only if the volume manager resets the user-visible uuid every time it > > makes a clone and nobody runs a duplicator. > > Yeah, interesting problem to solve though. > Do you have any further code review comments on this test case? Not really, no. --D