On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:23:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:33:30PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I have an older qemu VM image that i sometimes use for testing. It > > stopped booting with 4.13-4.14 because it couldn't run init. > > It uses ext3 for the root file system. > > Hmm, do you know roughly when (what krenel version) this image was > created? We had done quite a lot of research and the belief was > kernels never would create a "slow" symlink which was less than 60 > bytes.
The date of the inode is from 2007, the original kernel was 2.6.17 with a 32bit kernel. > Or was this image something that was created manually (e.g., using debugfs)? No, it was installed. -Andi
