On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 08:54:39AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 04:13:07PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:17:27PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > > The filesystem configuration file does not allow you to use symlinks to > > > > devices given the existing sanity checks verify that the target end > > > > device matches the source. > > I'm a little confused. Where are these "sanity checks" enforced? > I've been using > > SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/mapper/xt-vdc > > where /dev/mapper/xt-vdc is a symlink to /dev/dm-4 (or some such) > without any problems. So I don't quite understand why we need to > canonicalize devices? That might work, but try using /dev/disk/by-id/ stuff, that'll bust. So to keep existing expecations by fstests, it's needed. Luis
