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From: Daniel Mack <daniel@yoobay.net>
To: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] + [PATCH]: handling bad inodes in 2.4.x kernels
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 03:13:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020215031342.B19035@chaos.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020213182927.I15910@chaos.intra> <20020214193319.C1518@asooo.flowerfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020214193319.C1518@asooo.flowerfire.com>; from brownfld@irridia.com on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:33:19PM -0600

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:33:19PM -0600, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> One could argue that a corrupt filesystem is a corrupt filesystem, but

but a corrupted filesystem should not change the behaviour of the entire
kernel. write-opening a bad inode should not end up with the effect that 
the rename() syscall does not work anymore, i wasn't even able to securely
shut down by box everytime that happend.

> I've seen this behavior first hand (without using debugfs,
> unfortunately). 

thats how i found that bug - it exists in real life.

> I think it's worth someone with filesystem fu taking a
> look at this patch.  Or "seconded", whatever. :)

there's another possibilty for fixing this in my latest posting.


daniel

      reply	other threads:[~2002-02-15  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-13 17:29 [BUG] + [PATCH]: handling bad inodes in 2.4.x kernels Daniel Mack
2002-02-15  1:33 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-15  2:13   ` Daniel Mack [this message]

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