From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] multipath: make devt2devname use lstat to
 check sysfs	links
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:01:17 +0100
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On 01/10/2013 09:06 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> dm_reassign wasn't working correctly for me because devt2devname used sta=
t()
> to check if /sys/dev/block/major:minor was a symlink.  But stat() never r=
eturns
> a symlink, if follows it. It needs to use lstat() instead.  Also, I made
> multipath log a message when a dm device gets reassigned to use multipath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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