From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: More ext4 acl/xattr corruption - 4th occurence now Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:01:36 +0400 Message-ID: <4A129FA0.9050500@sun.com> References: <20090513062634.GE4972@kulgan> <20090514044011.GC11352@mit.edu> <20090514110659.GA5146@kulgan> <20090514132506.GD5146@kulgan> <20090514140732.GI11352@mit.edu> <20090514143014.GH5146@kulgan> <20090514161254.GJ11352@mit.edu> <20090514210244.GL5146@kulgan> <20090514212325.GG21316@mit.edu> <20090519113644.GA7927@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Thierry Vignaud , Kevin Shanahan , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com ([192.18.6.24]:58097 "EHLO gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234AbZESMC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 08:02:27 -0400 Received: from fe-emea-10.sun.com (gmp-eb-lb-1-fe3.eu.sun.com [192.18.6.10]) by gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n4JC2K2g016272 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:23 GMT Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-emea-10.sun.com by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 64bit (built Apr 16 2009)) id <0KJW002000RPWX00@fe-emea-10.sun.com> for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:20 +0100 (BST) In-reply-to: <20090519113644.GA7927@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Tso wrote: > On the other hand, most of the time writes into the directory will > tend to be into pre-existing free space; but if you had two parallel > cp's copying a large number of files into the same directory, that > could certainly happen. isn't access to a directory protected with i_mutex ? thanks, Alex