Re: Weird ext2 problem in 2.4.18 (redhat)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > Hey, neato, it gets weirder.  I went to go run an example and now most of
> > the files in " src/" are gone, most but not all.
> 
> Sounds like there is a two directory entries with the same name in the
> same directory.  This can cuase severe confusion since the kernel
> assumes that this will never happen.  Depending on which one gets
> found first, and what is cached in the dentry cache, you'll get one
> inode or the other.
> 
> E2fsck doesn't normally notice these sorts of inconsistencies, since
> it takes too much time and memory to look for duplicate entries.  If
> you optimize directories using "e2fsck -fD", it will find and offer to
> rename directory entires with a duplicated name.

Is not that a little dangerous? I'd expect filesystem to be
okay after doing plain normal check.

What about at least documenting it in BUGS section of man
page?
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				Pavel
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