linux-ext4 - Re: Fast symlinks stored slow

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:49:59 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Fast symlinks stored slow

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:02:13AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> From my point of view it's not too much trouble to recreate these
> filesystems, and we've already proposed a fix for supermin so it
> creates symlinks properly[1].

My concern is that people using libguestfs, et.al., on Fedura XX and
then try to decide to upgrade to the 4.13 kernel.  So it sounds like
the exposure could be pretty large.  Am I wrong?

Thanks,

					- Ted