From: Arturas K Subject: rm: cannot remove `???': No such file or directory Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:29 +0200 Message-ID: <492AB6C5.1050609@cerberis.soften.ktu.lt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cerberis.soften.ktu.lt ([193.219.33.193]:49895 "EHLO cerberis.soften.ktu.lt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752575AbYKXOkj (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:40:39 -0500 Received: from [172.16.6.95] (unknown [193.219.160.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cerberis.soften.ktu.lt (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC1F160004B8 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:15:40 +0200 (EET) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: hello, I did a simple/dirty benchmark on multiple file systems, and ext4dev encounters some problems recursively removing linux tree... tested with default and multiple altered option sets of mkfs.ext4dev and/or mount options - the same story :( I guess there are locks on files where modification is committed to fs, but not yet flushed to disk or something like this. anyway this behavior is fatal for any temporary file operations... --- test output --- > ~# ( cd /srv ; time ( tar xf /tmp/linux-2.6.26.tar && sync ) ) && ( cd /srv/linux-2.6.26 ; time ( cat /tmp/patch-2.6.27 | patch -p1 > ./log && sync ) ) && ( cd /srv ; time ( rm -R linux-2.6.26 && sync ) ) > > real 0m9.515s > user 0m0.112s > sys 0m1.536s > > real 0m11.752s > user 0m2.680s > sys 0m2.868s > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/alpha/include/asm/fb.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/s390/include/asm/irq_regs.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/sparc/include/asm/openprom_32.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/arm/configs/ateb9200_defconfig': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/arch/m68knommu/include/asm/scatterlist.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/include/asm-um/irq_vectors.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/include/asm-m68k/virtconvert.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/include/linux/hrtimer.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/include/linux/hardirq.h': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.26/include/linux/crc32c.h': No such file or directory > > real 0m0.721s > user 0m0.012s > sys 0m0.708s --- system --- ubuntu 8.10 amd64 > ~# dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2.6.27 > ii linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.16 > ~# dpkg -l | grep e2fs > ii e2fslibs 1.41.3-1ubuntu1 > ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1ubuntu1 --- ArturasK.