From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>, xake@rymdraket.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e4defrag: Handle device symlinks
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:04:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50085A36.3000505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500859C6.6040401@redhat.com>
On 7/19/12 2:02 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Device nodes are commonly accessed via symlinks, i.e.
>
> # ls -l /dev/mapper/testvg-testlv
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jul 19 13:01 /dev/mapper/testvg-testlv -> ../dm-0
>
> Today, e4defrag on such a device will fail:
FWIW this addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #707209
and was
Reported-by: Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@rymdraket.net>
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 19:02 [PATCH] e4defrag: Handle device symlinks Eric Sandeen
2012-07-19 19:04 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-07-28 21:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
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