From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: chrisl@vmware.com
Cc: azarah@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
adilger@clusterfs.com, ext3-users@redhat.com,
x86-kernel@gentoo.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for htree corruption. Was: [2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:55:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819035506.28f72a6a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030819104026.GA25402@vmware.com>
chrisl@vmware.com wrote:
>
> Martin,
>
> The first patch should fix it. The bug is trigger by creating the index.
> Coping out the index we assume the dirents start with the first entry
> after "." "..".
>
> It can make the first previous deleted entry reappear.
> In the past we set inode to zero for empty entry so this is not
> a problem. That is not true any more.
whee, neat, thanks.
> Andrew, I assume touch inode->i_ctime after
> ext3_mark_inode_dirty is a bug? The second patch is for that.
That's correct.
Could you please regenerate a full, single diff against a known kernel
version? That patch generated 100% rejects for me...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 20:22 Christopher Li
2003-08-06 22:28 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-19 10:40 ` [PATCH] fix for htree corruption. Was: " chrisl
2003-08-19 10:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-08-19 18:23 ` chrisl
2003-08-19 14:17 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-21 19:46 ` Martin Schlemmer
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