Re: [PATCH] fstests: add helper to canonicalize devices used to enable persistent disks

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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?

					- Ted



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