> 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. > > -- > === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === > PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk > --- But people have always eaten people, / what else is there to --- > eat? / If the Juju had meant us not to eat people / he > wouldn't have made us of meat. ---end quoted text--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
