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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 Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:42:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171125014238.GT2482@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <706E8F37-95C7-4321-AACA-2ED11F82E625@dilger.ca>

> Sure, but not many people are going to be running a 4.14 kernel with
> a 2007 system.  

It's not just root, but any disk. People could well have 10 year old
disks.

> Could you please run the updated find command to see
> whether this is an isolated case, or if it is a common case:
> 
> find / -type l -size -60c -print0 | xargs -0r ls -dils | awk '$2 != 0 { print }'

Pretty much all symlinks on / hit it. / has 1278 symlinks total, and 
1218 match the line above.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25  1:42 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
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 [this message]
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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