linux-kernel - Re: bug in fsck or ext2/ext3?

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:14:40 +0100
From:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
To:	Antoine Martin <antoine@...afix.co.uk>
Cc:	tytso@...nk.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in fsck or ext2/ext3?

On Monday 24 September 2007 17:56:39 Antoine Martin wrote:
> Hi Ted / LKML,
>
> I've got this snapshot of an ext3 filesystem with a directory that
> simply cannot be removed! (image below is just 1.2MB)
> As root:
> # wget http://users.nagafix.co.uk/~antoine/root-broken.bz2
> # bunzip2 root-broken.bz2
> # mount -o loop -t ext2 root-broken ./tmp
> # rm -fr tmp/chroot.broken
> rm: cannot remove directory (...)
> Same result when trying to do anything to those files chown/chmod/touch:
> "Operation not permitted"
>
> Tested with e2fsprogs v1.39 on 3 systems.
> Not sure where else to post this...

URL is broken. Tried doing a "lsattr" to ensure no xattrs (like +i) are set?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.

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