The Problem that never was .. (Re: IDE fs corruptions in 2.3.)

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:16:29 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > > kali:~% ls -a TEST
> > I noticed that 'ls' calls getdents(), followed by lstat().
> > Perhaps we have a problem with the inode's, and
> > the folder is perfectly ok?
> >
> > > I attached a debugsfs dump of the directory, which looks
> > > ok to my untrained eye.
> > Could add some more dumps?
>
> Ooops. I found the problem now. Please forget all my reports, it was
> my own fault.
>
> <embarrased>

It is okay, but wolf-fs-corruptions will always bring out the big guns.
I want some of your peaceful nights of sleep as compensation :-)

> -Andi

Linus,

It was a fun scare for a while...........gad...........
With that in mind, are we up for a partial ide backport?
Just think about it and we can review it in a week.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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