diff --git a/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in b/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules.in
index 337f4211201..b3c222a2683 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"