Re: [2.6.5, ext3] getdents reports files that stat says aren't there

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger_at_clusterfs.com)
Date: 05/17/04

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To: felix-kernel@fefe.de

    On May 17, 2004 21:39 +0200, felix-kernel@fefe.de wrote:
    > I keep getting this effect on my ext3 file system.
    > Applications like ls call readdir, get long deleted files, then stat
    > them, and get ENOENT.
    >
    > Most applications can handle this, but some report ugly errors or
    > warnings. I wonder: why does getdents report entries of deleted files?
    > I ran e2fsck on the partition, but it found nothing. So I guess it's
    > not a file system error. I have been seeing this for months now. It
    > does not actually hurt a lot, but I think it should be fixed
    > nonetheless.

    Are you using htree/indexed directories?

    dumpe2fs -h /dev/XXX | grep dir_index

    will tell you.

    Cheers, Andreas 

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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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