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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange "rm -fr" issue
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:10:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131230081014.GA392@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59DA49F7-C44D-4C50-A9C8-55C0BB78F29C@dilger.ca>

On 2013.12.29 at 11:47 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> If you are able to reproduce this issue (extract the same tree and
> then try "rm -fr" again) please run this under strace to see how many
> entries are returned during readdir from the kernel.
> 
> It could be a bug in the ext4 readdir code or it could be a bug in
> glibc or coreutils. 

Unfortunately the issue is not reproducible and therefore impossible to
debug. I just thought to post it nevertheless, just to see if perhaps
someone else encounters the same problem.

-- 
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-30  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-29 14:24 Strange "rm -fr" issue Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-12-29 18:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-12-30  8:10   ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2013-12-30 22:17 ` Jan Kara
2013-12-30 22:22   ` Markus Trippelsdorf

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