From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Fast symlinks stored slow
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:49:59 -0400
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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