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

[Andreas Dilger]

On May 17, 2004  21:39 +0200, felix-kernel@xxxxxxx 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/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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