On Monday 04 January 2010, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > Hi all, > > recently I needed to change a label of a btrfs filesystem. After a > bit of googling I discovered the Morey patches (dated august 2008). > > So I update the patches to the latest btrfs source. The patches > creates a new command called btrfslabel which is able to change the > label of a btrfs filesystem. > > The command differentiates two cases: > - the filesystem is mounted: the change is done by the kernel (see > the second patch), btrfslabel uses an ioctl to start the label changing. > - the filesystem is unmounted: the change is performed in user space.
I forgot to mention that even if the kernel isn't patched, it is still possible to change a label of an unmounted btrfs filesystem. -- gpg key@ keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli (ghigo) <kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint = 4769 7E51 5293 D36C 814E C054 BF04 F161 3DC5 0512 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
