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