Re: [PATCH] mkfs.btrfs: allow UUID specification at mkfs time

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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:41:19AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I am not against this option; I am suggesting to add a explicit
> > warning to the user about the risk of doing that, both on the man
> > pages and into the program. The warning should say that this option
> > is only for testing. Better ask for a confirmation (even with an
> > undocumented switch like
> > '--I-know-that-I-am-doing-something-really-dangerous').
> 
> meh.  ext4 and xfs have had the ability to either set or change the
> UUID for years, and I've not heard of any horror stories.

Because these filesystems do not detect their devices by uuid, it's
mainly for the multi-device fs, but applies for single-device fs as well.
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