From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbUEQUHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 16:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261347AbUEQUHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 16:07:53 -0400 Received: from moraine.clusterfs.com ([66.246.132.190]:52610 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261205AbUEQUHw (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 16:07:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:07:48 -0600 From: Andreas Dilger To: felix-kernel@fefe.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.5, ext3] getdents reports files that stat says aren't there Message-ID: <20040517200748.GJ18086@schnapps.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: felix-kernel@fefe.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040517193954.GA14835@codeblau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040517193954.GA14835@codeblau.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On May 17, 2004 21:39 +0200, felix-kernel@fefe.de wrote: > I keep getting this effect on my ext3 file system. > Applications like ls call readdir, get long deleted files, then stat > them, and get ENOENT. > > Most applications can handle this, but some report ugly errors or > warnings. I wonder: why does getdents report entries of deleted files? > I ran e2fsck on the partition, but it found nothing. So I guess it's > not a file system error. I have been seeing this for months now. It > does not actually hurt a lot, but I think it should be fixed > nonetheless. Are you using htree/indexed directories? dumpe2fs -h /dev/XXX | grep dir_index will tell you. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/