Re: [PATCH] Skip "rootfs" entry when checking for ext4 filesystem.

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On 10/08/2009 03:14 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Ping on this one?

Ping++

-Eric

> Ravi reported a failure w/o it:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm playing with e4defrag from e2frprogs git, and I've run into a bug.
>> When I try to defragment files on my root filesystem, it refuses to
>> acknowledge that the filesystem is ext4. I believe the problem is that
>> it checks the filesystem type by parsing /etc/mtab, but the root
>> filesystem shows up there like this:
>>
>> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
>> /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
>>
>> so it gets confused by the bogus first entry. It works just fine on
>> other ext4 filesystems I have.
>>
>> (If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologize; I couldn't find one for
>> e2fsprogs, so I thought this was the next best thing.)
>>
>> --Ravi
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eric
> 
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Skip "rootfs" entry when checking for ext4 filesystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/misc/e4defrag.c b/misc/e4defrag.c
>> index 82e3868..0d04df9 100644
>> --- a/misc/e4defrag.c
>> +++ b/misc/e4defrag.c
>> @@ -430,6 +430,8 @@ static int is_ext4(const char *file)
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	while ((mnt = getmntent(fp)) != NULL) {
>> +		if (mnt->mnt_fsname[0] != '/')
>> +			continue;
>>  		len = strlen(mnt->mnt_dir);
>>  		ret = memcmp(file_path, mnt->mnt_dir, len);
>>  		if (ret != 0)
>>
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