util-linux-2.18-r1 and still no symlink following. I'll ask for that at the kernel mailing list in the next days. If your (Hugo) util-linux doesn't include any kind of patches that behaviour is really strange.
Felix On 24. January 2011 - 15:44, Felix Blanke wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:14 +0100 > From: Felix Blanke <felixbla...@gmail.com> > To: Hugo Mills <hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk> > Cc: kreij...@inwind.it, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?! > > > 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--- ---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
