On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:07:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > To cut a long story short, we were using libext2fs to create > filesystems where short symlinks (< 60 bytes) were stored the same way > as long symlinks, ie. stored as an ordinary file instead of being > stored in the inode. As a further data point, e2fsck does not complain about these filesystems. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v