On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:33:30PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I have an older qemu VM image that i sometimes use for testing. It > stopped booting with 4.13-4.14 because it couldn't run init. > It uses ext3 for the root file system. Hmm, do you know roughly when (what krenel version) this image was created? We had done quite a lot of research and the belief was kernels never would create a "slow" symlink which was less than 60 bytes. Or was this image something that was created manually (e.g., using debugfs)? - Ted