From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Trippelsdorf Subject: Re: Strange "rm -fr" issue Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:10:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20131230081014.GA392@x4> References: <20131229142406.GA393@x4> <59DA49F7-C44D-4C50-A9C8-55C0BB78F29C@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from ud10.udmedia.de ([194.117.254.50]:58149 "EHLO mail.ud10.udmedia.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751857Ab3L3IKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Dec 2013 03:10:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59DA49F7-C44D-4C50-A9C8-55C0BB78F29C@dilger.ca> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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