From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Blanke Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?! Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20110124165258.GA2562@scooter> References: <20110122151124.GC29985@carfax.org.uk> <20110122155612.GA3664@scooter> <20110123181827.GF29985@carfax.org.uk> <4D3CA568.7050506@libero.it> <20110124130104.GA7354@scooter> <20110124131341.GA3403@carfax.org.uk> <20110124135305.GB7354@scooter> <20110124142936.GB3403@carfax.org.uk> <20110124143448.GC3403@carfax.org.uk> <20110124144414.GD7354@scooter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110124144414.GD7354@scooter> List-ID: 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 > To: Hugo Mills > Cc: kreijack@inwind.it, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?! > > > 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 > > > > > Hugo. > > > > -- > > === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === > > PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk > > --- But people have always eaten people, / what else is there to --- > > eat? / If the Juju had meant us not to eat people / he > > wouldn't have made us of meat. > > > ---end quoted text--- ---end quoted text---