linux-kernel - Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir

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Message-ID: <20090304015713.GJ32284@mit.edu>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:57:13 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>
Cc:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
> > Yes, it has been fixed, please see the following git commits:
> >
> > 6a897cf447a83c9c3fd1b85a1e525c02d6eada7d
> > 8c9fa93d51123c5540762b1a9e1919d6f9c4af7c
> 
> [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 *).]

The patches were backported to 2.6.27 stable in 2.6.27.8.  So the
problem would expected to be still present in an 2.6.27.7 kernel.

	      	       	     	   	   - Ted
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