Image location: http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/releases/yocto-1.8_M2.rc1
Git rev: master/d9d5b8b499af3ae01a1e33d0d3969c54c2d4ab1b

This issue exists in core-image-sato-sdk image for p1022ds, mpc8315 and edgerouter. When the system startup, I got the following error:
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Populating dev cache
stat: invalid option -- 'L'
Usage: stat [-l] [-f] [-s] [-v] [-h] [-t] [-c format] file1 [file2 ...]
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The cause is the stat command for stat package doesn't support -L option:
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root@edgerouter:~# which stat
/bin/stat
root@edgerouter:~# ls -l /bin/stat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 20  2015 /bin/stat -> /bin/stat.stat
root@edgerouter:~# rpm -qf /bin/stat
busybox-1.22.1-r32.mips64
coreutils-8.23-r0.mips64
stat-3.3-r0.mips64
root@edgerouter:~# rpm -qf /bin/stat.stat 
stat-3.3-r0.mips64
root@edgerouter:~# stat
Usage: stat [-l] [-f] [-s] [-v] [-h] [-t] [-c format] file1 [file2 ...]
root@edgerouter:~#
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