From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:42:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20171125014238.GT2482@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20171123203330.GN2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171123222317.bq2v26zm5i2jspui@thunk.org> <20171123233101.GP2482@two.firstfloor.org> <700971AC-BDE2-4993-BD56-7497AD8A0FC4@dilger.ca> <20171124020435.GQ2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171124165102.GS2482@two.firstfloor.org> <706E8F37-95C7-4321-AACA-2ED11F82E625@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , Theodore Ts'o , Tahsin Erdogan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4 To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:59856 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbdKYBml (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:42:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <706E8F37-95C7-4321-AACA-2ED11F82E625@dilger.ca> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Sure, but not many people are going to be running a 4.14 kernel with > a 2007 system. It's not just root, but any disk. People could well have 10 year old disks. > Could you please run the updated find command to see > whether this is an isolated case, or if it is a common case: > > find / -type l -size -60c -print0 | xargs -0r ls -dils | awk '$2 != 0 { print }' Pretty much all symlinks on / hit it. / has 1278 symlinks total, and 1218 match the line above. -Andi