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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e4defrag: Handle device symlinks
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:04:22 -0500
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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