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From: Maxim Blinov <maxim.blinov@embecosm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Help! How to delete an 8094-byte PATH?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:09:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a57e2fde-f430-952d-9878-d7a5307cb2db@embecosm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfKg3DQS0h2lPo3z@casper.infradead.org>

Hi Matthew, Ritesh,

On 27/01/2022 13:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> here's an idea:
> 
> while true; do
> 	mv confdir3/confdir3 tmpd; rmdir confdir3; mv tmpd confdir3;
> done
> 

Thankyou for all your comments - mv'ing a child directory "up" and
deleting *that* did the trick!

Infact I was complaining about this to some colleagues who kindly
pointed me to this thread [1] where someone has exactly the same issue.

Searching for `confdir3`, it turns out this issue is more googleable
than I initially realized - there's quite a few others who have bumped
into these weird path length limitations, in particular with docker
(there's another thing I forgot to mention - to be clear, I'm running
QEMU inside a docker container.)

Still it seems strange, since the QEMU VM disk image is a static file
within the docker file system, and there are no bind mounts going on in
the container.

[1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/13451

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-27 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27  7:06 Help! How to delete an 8094-byte PATH? Maxim Blinov
2022-01-27  7:27 ` Maxim Blinov
2022-01-27 12:20 ` Ritesh Harjani
2022-01-27 13:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-27 15:09     ` Maxim Blinov [this message]
2022-01-27 15:34       ` Maxim Blinov

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