[dm-devel] [PATCH] kpartx: use inode to identify loopback mounts

[Christophe Varoqui]

Applied, finally.
Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Risto Kankkunen <
risto.kankkunen at f-secure.com> wrote:

> This is a patch which I submitted to Launchpad (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1469143).
> I was told to submit it to this list instead.
>
> Currently kpartx doesn't work correctly with relative path names,
> hardlinks, symlinks or paths longer than 63 characters. This is because it
> tries to identify mounts by a non-unique name it gives to the mount. The
> loopinfo struct contains the device and inode information of the backing
> image, it is better to identify mounts by those.
>
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