Kalpak Shah wrote:
Hi,
If the mode of a directory gets corrupted, check_filetype() makes wrong
decisions for all its sub-directories. For example, using debugfs we can
corrupt the mode of a directory to 0140755 (i.e. a socket). e2fsck will set the
filetype of all its subdirectories as 6 (file
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:52:08AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Jan 23, 2007 18:24 +0100, Cordenner jean noel wrote:
This patch adds a ``st_i_version'' field in the stat
structure, and modifies the stat(2) syscall accordingly. Currently the
change is only vis
Alex Tomas wrote:
Peter Staubach (PS) writes:
PS> Just out of curosity, what keeps i_nlink from going to 0 immediately
PS> after the new test is executed?
i_mutex in vfs_link() and vfs_unlink()
Ahhh... Okie doke, thanx!
ps
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Eric Sandeen wrote:
An update from the earlier thread, [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode
from orphan list when link and unlink race
I think this is better than the original idea of trying to handle the
race;
I've seen that the orphan inode list can get corrupted, but there may
well
be other imp
Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:42 +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
hello,
here is a small patch that adds the "change attribute" for ext3
file-systems;
the change attribute is a simple counter that is reset to zero on
inode creation and that is incremented every time the in
