linux-kernel - Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir

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Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:51:26 +0100
From:	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:54:02PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
>
>> In a largish directory (21292 files) a scan using ext3 readdir
>> found 21293 files, returning one entry twice.
>>
>> Has this been fixed in the current tree?
> 
> Yes, it has been fixed, please see the following git commits:
>
> 6a897cf447a83c9c3fd1b85a1e525c02d6eada7d
> 8c9fa93d51123c5540762b1a9e1919d6f9c4af7c

Good, thanks!

Andries


[On another machine, Ubuntu with 2.6.27-7-server still fails:
% ../readdirtest
expected 61005 files, but readdir reports 61006
% rm *
rm: cannot remove `59992': No such file or directory
(where the same name occurs twice in the expansion of *).]


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