From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Subject: Re: ext3 duplicate entries with readdir
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:45:24 +0100
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Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
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Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
>>>>> Yes, it has been fixed, please see the following git commits:
>>>>>
>>>>> 6a897cf447a83c9c3fd1b85a1e525c02d6eada7d
>>>>> 8c9fa93d51123c5540762b1a9e1919d6f9c4af7c
>>>> [On another machine, Ubuntu with 2.6.27-7-server still fails:
>>>> % ../readdirtest
>>>> expected 61005 files, but readdir reports 61006
>>>> % rm *
>>>> rm: cannot remove `59992': No such file or directory
>>>> (where the same name occurs twice in the expansion of *).]
>>> The patches were backported to 2.6.27 stable in 2.6.27.8.  So the
>>> problem would expected to be still present in an 2.6.27.7 kernel.
>>>
>>> 	      	       	     	   	   - Ted
>> 
>> Does the bug also affect xfs? Because I see the problem there.
>
> Completely different, and the wrong list for the question, really.
>
> Please point me to the bug you filed for this problem on xfs, I'll look
> into it (and when you do so please cc: the xfs list, and trim off the
> current ext4-related recipients)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric

Haven't filed a bug and can't reproduce the problem but I had 2 cases
that behaved the same way so I wondered if it was the same
issue. Would have ment I could stop worrying about it and wouldn't
have to try to reproduce it.

MfG
        Goswin