On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:02:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:This means we failed to make a properly serious effort at replicating it on our hardware. My apologies for that. Who at Namessys was it that investigated your bug report?
> It is not a "leak" as such - the dentries will get shrunk in normal usage
> (create enough non-dir dentries and the "leaked" directory dentries will
> get reclaimed). The really deep directories which fsstress creates
> demonstrated the bug.
This could explain the random reiserfs oopses/hangs I was seeing several
months back after running fsstress for a day or so. The reiser folks
were scratching their heads, and we even put it down to flaky hardware
or maybe even a CPU bug back then.