linux-kernel - Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:42:13 +1100
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
        Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
        Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:14:27AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Of course. I've done that every time I've come acros these sorts of
> > problems.
> 
> The most recent report I was able to find was against 4.7-rc6, in July
> 2016.  Have you been able to reproduce it more recently than that?

I hit it once a couple of months ago, but I was was busy with much
higher priority stuff at the time (sorting out a CVE-worthy bug fix)
so it slipped off my radar pretty rapidly after I recovered the test
system and kept doing what I needed to do...

So, yeah, the problems are still there, I just don't run my root
filesystems out of space very often. Like I said - maybe once or
twice a year is the typical frequency this happens.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com