On 06/18/15 at 02:53pm, Dave Young wrote:
On 06/18/15 at 01:54pm, Minfei Huang wrote:
> On 06/18/15 at 10:12am, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 06/15/15 at 04:33pm, Minfei Huang wrote:
> > > Here is some content from blkid manpage.
> > > - Note that blkid reads information directly from devices and for
> > > non-root users it returns cached unverified information.
> > > - Avoid using the symlinks directly; it is not reliable to use the
> > > symlinks without verification.
> > >
> >
> > Thinking more about it, You may need fix it in dracut, and then backport to
mkdumprd.
> >
> > It is btrfs specific so only doing this for btrfs case is better..
> >
>
> Hi, Dave.
>
> As blkid manpage mentioned, reading symlink (soft-link) does not
> recommend. All will be solved, once we use blkid to get the filesystem
> UUID, including the btrfs issue.
Minfei, I did not mean to change the symlink code, instead I talked about
the whole get_presistant_dev function cleanup.
Hi, Dave.
Replied it in another mail in this thread, you can check it.
Thanks
Minfei