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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:42:13 +1100
From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:14:27AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Of course. I've done that every time I've come acros these sorts of
> > problems.
> 
> The most recent report I was able to find was against 4.7-rc6, in July
> 2016.  Have you been able to reproduce it more recently than that?

I hit it once a couple of months ago, but I was was busy with much
higher priority stuff at the time (sorting out a CVE-worthy bug fix)
so it slipped off my radar pretty rapidly after I recovered the test
system and kept doing what I needed to do...

So, yeah, the problems are still there, I just don't run my root
filesystems out of space very often. Like I said - maybe once or
twice a year is the typical frequency this happens.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com