From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: felix-kernel@fefe.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.5, ext3] getdents reports files that stat says aren't there
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:07:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517200748.GJ18086@schnapps.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040517193954.GA14835@codeblau.de>
On May 17, 2004 21:39 +0200, felix-kernel@fefe.de wrote:
> I keep getting this effect on my ext3 file system.
> Applications like ls call readdir, get long deleted files, then stat
> them, and get ENOENT.
>
> Most applications can handle this, but some report ugly errors or
> warnings. I wonder: why does getdents report entries of deleted files?
> I ran e2fsck on the partition, but it found nothing. So I guess it's
> not a file system error. I have been seeing this for months now. It
> does not actually hurt a lot, but I think it should be fixed
> nonetheless.
Are you using htree/indexed directories?
dumpe2fs -h /dev/XXX | grep dir_index
will tell you.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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2004-05-17 19:39 [2.6.5, ext3] getdents reports files that stat says aren't there felix-kernel
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