Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:12:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
cc: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird ext2 problem in 2.4.18 (redhat)
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> 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.

It seems they've two different names "src" and " src" and ext2_match() 
should not be fooled by the space. If this is the drive that has been 
hacked, I'd rather go for a full cleanup.


- Davide


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