xfstests: resolve symlinked devices to real paths

Rich Johnston rjohnston at sgi.com
Fri Oct 26 11:46:45 CDT 2012


On 06/08/2010 03:03 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> If you try running xfstests on lvm volumes which are symlinks,
> it'll fail to run several tests because our _require_scratch
> framework ultimately uses lstat not stat, and does not think
> the lvm device (which is usually a symlink to a dm-X device)
> is a block device.  Sigh.
>
> Last try at this - just resolve any symlinked devicenames
> into their realpath(3) in common.config.
>
> This actually seems to work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
>
> ---
>
>
> diff --git a/common.config b/common.config
> index 926846b..e5b2483 100644
> --- a/common.config
> +++ b/common.config

Looks good

Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston at sgi.com>

Eric,

This patch has been committed to git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfstests, 
master branch, commit ID d5ea873f.

Thanks
--Rich



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