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

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Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 17:22:02 +0200
From:   Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4: unexpected delayed file creation with a 5.17 kernel

On 2022-05-12 10:52:34 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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*?

Completely unreproducible. This was the only time I noticed such an
issue with ext4.

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