linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: unexpected delayed file creation with a 5.17 kernel

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Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 10:52:34 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4: unexpected delayed file creation with a 5.17 kernel

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a Linux machine (12-core x86_64 Debian/unstable, 5.17 kernel)
> with an ext4 filesystem, I got a file born 30 seconds after its
> actual creation by a script. This is completely unreproducible.

completely *reproducible* or *unreproducible*?

If it is completely reproducible, can you try to reduce your shell
script to a minimal reproducer?

					- Ted