linux-ext4 - Ext4:can not rm directories on 2.6.3x

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Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:24:19 +0800
From:	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Ext4:can not rm directories on 2.6.3x

OK. Thanks a lot.
This bug can happen on Ubuntu 11.04,10.10 with kernel 2.6.3x.
Follow the above steps, this bug can be reproduced.

Anyone has the same experience?

On 03/12/2013 09:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:41:31PM +0800, zhuyj wrote:
>> If I use kernel>=3.0, this will not occur.
> Sounds like this is a problem in 2.6.39 that has since been fixed in
> newer kernels.
>
>> So is this is a bug?
> Sure looks like it's a bug.  :-)
>
> There are so many distributions and other old embedded systems, etc.,
> using older kernels that there's just no way that upstream developers
> can try to debug every single older kernel --- and 2.6.39 isn't even a
> kernel that is being supported by a volunteer as a long-term supported
> kernel.
>
> See http://www.kernel.org for a list of kernels which are supported as
> long-term kernels, and even then, please remember that unless fixes
> are automatically backported, or someone manually backports a fix that
> doesn't automatically apply to an older kernel, it's not going to
> happen.....
>
> Regards,
>
> 					- Ted
>
> P.S.  Your problem appears to be completely unrelated to the thread
> which you replied to.  This makes it hard for us to keep track of
> questions/bug reports which users submit.
>

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