Re: [PATCH] tests: Remove stale symlinks before linking loop device

[Nir Soffer]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 4:14 AM Nir Soffer <nirsof(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  From: Amit Bawer <abawer(a)redhat.com&gt;
>
>  On storage setup we can have stale symlinks to loop devices
>  which were created before reboot and now are gone. Re-running the
>  setup will fail on creating the symlink again. In this patch we
>  add removal of the pre-existing symlink, if there is such, before
>  symlinking the new loop device.
>  ---
>   tests/storage.py | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
>  diff --git a/tests/storage.py b/tests/storage.py
>  index 3258ed4..ef40f08 100644
>  --- a/tests/storage.py
>  +++ b/tests/storage.py
>  @@ -82,10 +82,13 @@ def create_loop_device(link_path, backing_file,
>  size=1024**3,
>           "--show",
>       ])
>
>       device = out.decode("utf-8").strip()
>
>  +    #remove stale symlink
>  +    if os.path.islink(link_path):
>  +        os.unlink(link_path)
>  
Noticed now that the comment is not formatted properly, will fix
before pushing.



>       os.symlink(device, link_path)
>       chown(link_path)
>
>
>   def remove_loop_device(link_path, backing_file):
>  --
>  2.17.2
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