From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
tahsin@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:04:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171124020435.GQ2482@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <700971AC-BDE2-4993-BD56-7497AD8A0FC4@dilger.ca>
> As a workaround, you could delete and recreate the symlink with the new
I revert the patch for now. Everything seems to work.
> kernel to create a proper fast symlink. It would be useful to scan the
> image to see if there are other similar symlinks present:
>
> find /myth/tmp -type l -size -60 -ls | awk '$2 != 0 { print }'
Doesn't find anything. Your recipe must be wrong.
>
> This is probably something that e2fsck should check for and fix.
Nah the kernel should just support it like it always did.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-24 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-23 20:33 regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs Andi Kleen
2017-11-23 22:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-23 23:31 ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-24 0:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-11-24 2:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-11-24 6:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-11-24 16:51 ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-24 22:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-11-24 22:28 ` James Bottomley
2017-11-25 1:42 ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-25 22:32 ` Dave Chinner
2017-11-25 22:45 ` Reindl Harald
2017-11-25 22:57 ` Dave Chinner
2017-11-26 15:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-26 21:14 ` Dave Chinner
2017-11-27 17:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-28 0:42 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-04 16:35 ` Jan Kara
2017-11-25 3:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
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