Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

[Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>]

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