2012/11/26 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:43:40PM +0100, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
>> > The I checked the script common.rc, and found that it uses
>> > df to determine the filesystem type and it uses the realpath
>> > "/dev/dm-0" instead of "/dev/mapper/mpatha", while df always
>> > shows "devtmpfs" instead of "ext4" for /dev/dm-0.
>> >
>> > I run "mount" and found that devtmpfs is mount on /dev/ on opensuse
>> > ***by default***. Even though I run "mount -t btrfs /dev/dm-0 /somedir",
>> > df still showed devtmpfs.
>> >
>> > Any ideas to kick off the xfstests?
>
> At least with the df which ships with Debian Testing, df will display
> the file system in use if it matches the device name which is
> /etc/mtab. It looks the issue is that mount is canonicalizing the
> device name to be the human friendly version:
>
> # ls -l /dev/mapper/closure-bigscratch
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 16 15:15 /dev/mapper/closure-bigscratch -> ../dm-7
> <tytso.root@closure> {/home/tytso/bin}, level 2
> # mount /dev/dm-7 /u2
> # df /u2
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/closure-bigscratch 52403200 224772 52178428 1% /u2
> # grep /u2 /etc/mtab
> /dev/mapper/closure-bigscratch /u2 xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0
>
> So the simplest solution is to just use /dev/mapper/mpatha instead of
> insisting on using /dev/dm-0. That's what I do....
In xfstests/common.rc, it will use realpath to obtain /dev/dm-0, even if you
specified /dev/mapper/mpatha.
My problem is in SuSE, the devtmpfs is mounted on /dev by default, seems
used by udev. And df reports devtmpfs on /dev/dm-0, instead of ext4.
>
> - Ted
>
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