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Message-ID: <513FF163.7080606@gmail.xom> 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. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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