Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

[Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>]

If gentoo is configured for using loop-aes, a patch is applied:

http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/util-linux-ng-2.17.1-20100308.diff.bz2

Debian doesn't seem to apply that patch, therefore I'm getting that ioctl error and
can't loop my encrypted devices.

Now everything does make sense :) The difference is somewhere in that patch. It's a
huge one. Maybe I'll talk to the loop-aes maintainer (I'm subscribed to that list)
and try to deep into that.

It is def. not a btrfs related problem. If anyone wants to keep on track with my
investigation just let me now, otherwise I'll stop posting about this in the
btrfs-list.


Thanks for your help!


Felix


On 24. January 2011 - 22:04, Felix Blanke wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:04:54 +0100
> From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>
> To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it is getting interesting :)
> 
> 
> If I'm using the debian util-linux (with the patches) I'm getting an error while
> executing losetup:
> 
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> Now the interesting part: The strace of the debian util-linux shows:
> 
> readlink("/dev", 0x7fffcea2a0a0, 4096)  = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> readlink("/dev/disk", 0x7fffcea2a0a0, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> readlink("/dev/disk/by-id", 0x7fffcea2a0a0, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> readlink("/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-22A7B2_WD-WCASY7780706-part3",
> "../../sda3", 4096) = 10
> readlink("/dev/sda3", 0x7fffcea2a0a0, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> 
> But in the gentoo util-linux there is no readlink in the strace. There are also those
> readlinks with the unpatched source from that debian package.
> 
> If I use the tarball of gentoo and compile it by my own there are readlinks. I'll
> take a look if there are any gentoo-patches applied during the build.
> 
> Felix
> 
> On 24. January 2011 - 17:00, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:24 +0000
> > From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
> > To: Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>
> > Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!
> > Mail-Followup-To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>, Felix Blanke
> >  <felixblanke@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:52:58PM +0100, Felix Blanke wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> >    Just for reference:
> > 
> > Package description page:
> > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/util-linux
> > 
> > Original upstream sources Debian are using:
> > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.17.2.orig.tar.gz
> > 
> > Debian patches on top of that source (mostly to the build system):
> > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.17.2-5.diff.gz
> > 
> >    Hugo.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Felix
> > > 
> > > On 24. January 2011 - 15:44, Felix Blanke wrote:
> > > > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:14 +0100
> > > > From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>
> > > > To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
> > > > 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.
> > > > > 
> > 
> > -- 
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