diff --git a/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in b/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in
index 337f421120..b3c222a268 100644
--- a/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in
+++ b/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in
@@ -148,13 +148,4 @@ ENV{ID_PART_ENTRY_SCHEME}=="gpt", ENV{ID_PART_ENTRY_NAME}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/
 # the right device, to access specific disks in a race-free fashion)
 ENV{DISKSEQ}=="?*", ENV{ID_IGNORE_DISKSEQ}!="1", SYMLINK+="disk/by-diskseq/$env{DISKSEQ}$env{.PART_SUFFIX}"
 
-# Create symlinks that allow referencing loopback devices by their backing file's inode number
-ENV{ID_LOOP_BACKING_DEVICE}!="", ENV{ID_LOOP_BACKING_INODE}!="", SYMLINK+="loop/by-inode/$env{ID_LOOP_BACKING_DEVICE}-$env{ID_LOOP_BACKING_INODE}$env{.PART_SUFFIX}"
-
-# Similar, but uses the .lo_file_name field of the loopback device (note that
-# this is basically just a free-form string passed from userspace to the kernel
-# when the device is created, it is not necessarily a file system path like the
-# "loop/backing_file" sysfs attribute, which is always an absolute path)
-ENV{ID_LOOP_BACKING_FILENAME_ENC}!="", SYMLINK+="loop/by-ref/$env{ID_LOOP_BACKING_FILENAME_ENC}$env{.PART_SUFFIX}"
-
 LABEL="persistent_storage_end"
diff --git a/test/units/testsuite-50.sh b/test/units/testsuite-50.sh
index b97766a1e2..efdbe6ac74 100755
--- a/test/units/testsuite-50.sh
+++ b/test/units/testsuite-50.sh
@@ -470,48 +470,6 @@ mount -t ddi "${image}.gpt" "$T" -o ro,X-mount.mkdir,discard
 umount -R "$T"
 rmdir "$T"
 
-LOOP="$(systemd-dissect --attach --loop-ref=waldo "${image}.raw")"
-
-# Wait until the symlinks we want to test are established
-udevadm trigger -w "$LOOP"
-
-# Check if the /dev/loop/* symlinks really reference the right device
-test /dev/loop/by-ref/waldo -ef "$LOOP"
-
-if [ "$(stat -c '%Hd:%Ld' "${image}.raw")" != '?d:?d' ] ; then
-   # Old stat didn't know the %Hd and %Ld specifiers and turned them into ?d
-   # instead. Let's simply skip the test on such old systems.
-   test "$(stat -c '/dev/loop/by-inode/%Hd:%Ld-%i' "${image}.raw")" -ef "$LOOP"
-fi
-
-# Detach by loopback device
-systemd-dissect --detach "$LOOP"
-
-# Test long reference name.
-# Note, sizeof_field(struct loop_info64, lo_file_name) == 64,
-# and --loop-ref accepts upto 63 characters, and udev creates symlink
-# based on the name when it has upto _62_ characters.
-name="$(for _ in {1..62}; do echo -n 'x'; done)"
-LOOP="$(systemd-dissect --attach --loop-ref="$name" "${image}.raw")"
-udevadm trigger -w "$LOOP"
-
-# Check if the /dev/loop/by-ref/$name symlink really references the right device
-test "/dev/loop/by-ref/$name" -ef "$LOOP"
-
-# Detach by the /dev/loop/by-ref symlink
-systemd-dissect --detach "/dev/loop/by-ref/$name"
-
-name="$(for _ in {1..63}; do echo -n 'x'; done)"
-LOOP="$(systemd-dissect --attach --loop-ref="$name" "${image}.raw")"
-udevadm trigger -w "$LOOP"
-
-# Check if the /dev/loop/by-ref/$name symlink does not exist
-test ! -e "/dev/loop/by-ref/$name"
-
-# Detach by backing inode
-systemd-dissect --detach "${image}.raw"
-(! systemd-dissect --detach "${image}.raw")
-
 # check for confext functionality
 mkdir -p /run/confexts/test/etc/extension-release.d
 echo "ID=_any" >/run/confexts/test/etc/extension-release.d/extension-release.test