On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:52:58PM +0100, Felix Blanke wrote: > 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. Just for reference: Package description page: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/util-linux Original upstream sources Debian are using: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.17.2.orig.tar.gz Debian patches on top of that source (mostly to the build system): http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.17.2-5.diff.gz Hugo. > > Felix > > On 24. January 2011 - 15:44, Felix Blanke wrote: > > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44:14 +0100 > > From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: kreijack@xxxxxxxxx, linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 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 --- Turning, pages turning in the widening bath, / The spine --- cannot bear the humidity. / Books fall apart; the binding cannot hold. / Page 129 is loosed upon the world.
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