From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751707AbdKXCEi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:04:38 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:34946 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751434AbdKXCEh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:04:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:04:35 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Andreas Dilger Cc: Andi Kleen , "Theodore Ts'o" , 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 Message-ID: <20171124020435.GQ2482@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20171123203330.GN2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171123222317.bq2v26zm5i2jspui@thunk.org> <20171123233101.GP2482@two.firstfloor.org> <700971AC-BDE2-4993-BD56-7497AD8A0FC4@dilger.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <700971AC-BDE2-4993-BD56-7497AD8A0FC4@dilger.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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