Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

util-linux-2.18-r1 and still no symlink following.

I'll ask for that at the kernel mailing list in the next days. If your (Hugo)
util-linux doesn't include any kind of patches that behaviour is really strange.


Felix

On 24. January 2011 - 15:44, Felix Blanke wrote:

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:14 +0100
From: Felix Blanke <redacted>
To: Hugo Mills <redacted>
Cc: kreijack@inwind.it, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:29:36PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:

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   If, instead, the initial losetup call tracked the symlinks back to
the original device node (i.e. something like "/dev/sdb3", or
"/dev/mapper/ruthven-btest" in my example), then the name that's
stored in the kernel would be shorter, and we'd be less likely to see
the truncation. This is what my copy of losetup seems to be doing. I
can't see any distribution-specific patches in the source for
util-linux that would do this, though.

   Hmm... Just had a thought: is
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-part3 on
your system a symlink or a device node? What does ls -l say?

It is a symlink created by udev:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-part3 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 23:39
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-part3 -> ../../sdb3

Following that link should work :)


Felix

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