Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:55:06 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix for htree corruption. Was: [2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE |
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chrisl@vmware.com wrote: > > Martin, > > The first patch should fix it. The bug is trigger by creating the index. > Coping out the index we assume the dirents start with the first entry > after "." "..". > > It can make the first previous deleted entry reappear. > In the past we set inode to zero for empty entry so this is not > a problem. That is not true any more.
whee, neat, thanks.
> Andrew, I assume touch inode->i_ctime after > ext3_mark_inode_dirty is a bug? The second patch is for that.
That's correct.
Could you please regenerate a full, single diff against a known kernel version? That patch generated 100% rejects for me...
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