From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p43HJDCh022118 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 12:19:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfstests: support post-udev device mapper nodes From: Alex Elder In-Reply-To: <20110503084359.GA21704@infradead.org> References: <20110503084359.GA21704@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 12:22:46 -0500 Message-ID: <1304443366.2853.24.camel@doink> MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: aelder@sgi.com List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 04:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Because of udevs complaining device mapper now creates /dev/dm-N as the real > device nodes, and just symlinks the /dev/mapper/ names to it. This would be > easy if everything used the /dev/mapper clear names, but most system utilities > translate them back to the /dev/mapper/ names and thus confuse various test > cases. Add support to _is_block_dev to read symlinks, and add documentation > on how to run xfstests on device mapper volumes. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs