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Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:15:18 GMT
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--- Comment #179 from Eric Sandeen 2009-11-06 22:15:16 ---
(In reply to comment #178)
> For ext4, one thing I would suggest is to simply always put the NUL at the
> end of the name, even if the filesystem might not need it. Then
> nd_terminate_link() will still write the NUL, but it won't change any data
> (and thus no CRC's).
Ah, good idea in the short term at least.
FWIW I've got the other 2 places I hit fixed up and my testcase is surviving
thus far. I'll find a testcase for the symlink, fix that up, and get some
patches out.
Big kudos to Chris for the swanky patch to make this all obvious...
-Eric
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