Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir

Theodore Tso
2009-03-04T01:57:18Z

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
> > Yes, it has been fixed, please see the following git commits:
> >
> > 6a897cf447a83c9c3fd1b85a1e525c02d6eada7d
> > 8c9fa93d51123c5540762b1a9e1919d6f9c4af7c
>
> [On another machine, Ubuntu with 2.6.27-7-server still fails:
> % ../readdirtest
> expected 61005 files, but readdir reports 61006
> % rm *
> rm: cannot remove `59992': No such file or directory
> (where the same name occurs twice in the expansion of *).]

The patches were backported to 2.6.27 stable in 2.6.27.8. So the
problem would expected to be still present in an 2.6.27.7 kernel.

- Ted