From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zhuyj Subject: Ext4:can not rm directories on 2.6.3x Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:24:19 +0800 Message-ID: <513FF163.7080606@gmail.xom> References: <513EDC2B.9020604@gmail.xom> <20130312134229.GJ18595@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zhuyj , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com ([209.85.214.176]:46425 "EHLO mail-ob0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755857Ab3CMDYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:24:23 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id v19so579899obq.21 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:24:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130312134229.GJ18595@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: OK. Thanks a lot. This bug can happen on Ubuntu 11.04,10.10 with kernel 2.6.3x. Follow the above steps, this bug can be reproduced. Anyone has the same experience? On 03/12/2013 09:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:41:31PM +0800, zhuyj wrote: >> If I use kernel>=3.0, this will not occur. > Sounds like this is a problem in 2.6.39 that has since been fixed in > newer kernels. > >> So is this is a bug? > Sure looks like it's a bug. :-) > > There are so many distributions and other old embedded systems, etc., > using older kernels that there's just no way that upstream developers > can try to debug every single older kernel --- and 2.6.39 isn't even a > kernel that is being supported by a volunteer as a long-term supported > kernel. > > See http://www.kernel.org for a list of kernels which are supported as > long-term kernels, and even then, please remember that unless fixes > are automatically backported, or someone manually backports a fix that > doesn't automatically apply to an older kernel, it's not going to > happen..... > > Regards, > > - Ted > > P.S. Your problem appears to be completely unrelated to the thread > which you replied to. This makes it hard for us to keep track of > questions/bug reports which users submit. >