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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:43:56 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/24] debugfs: Only print the first 60 bytes from
 i_block on a fast symlink

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:49:35AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to decode and print the whole symlink from the
> inline data?  Depending on the use of debugfs, printing only the
> first 60 bytes may cause people/scripts to think the link is
> corrupted.

I agree in principle, although for now, this fixes a bug, so I'll
apply it.  Humans shouldn't get too confused, since we now do print
the extended attributes:

debugfs:  stat symlinkfile
Inode: 131075   Type: symlink    Mode:  0777   Flags: 0x10000000
Generation: 3080286240    Version: 0x00000000:00000001
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 62
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1   Blockcount: 0
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
 ctime: 0x53ce9340:c78386a4 -- Tue Jul 22 16:37:20 2014
 atime: 0x53ce9346:bd2d7348 -- Tue Jul 22 16:37:26 2014
 mtime: 0x53ce9340:c78386a4 -- Tue Jul 22 16:37:20 2014
crtime: 0x53ce9340:c78386a4 -- Tue Jul 22 16:37:20 2014
Size of extra inode fields: 28
Extended attributes:
  system.data = "89" (2)
Fast_link_dest: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567"


But I would agree it owuld be better if we displayed the symlink
target completely.

						- Ted
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