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

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On 2010-10-07, at 11:04, Eric Sandeen wrote:

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

Looks reasonable.  I thought it would skip the second "/" entry as well, but in fact this is looking at the "dev" field and it is skipping the "rootfs" (as well as other virtual filesystems like procfs and devfs).

>> 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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