Hi,
I am not totally sure what caused this but I just
wanted to know if anything of this sort has been
seen in the ext3 world.
I did a fresh install of redhat 7.2 linux with
kernel-2.4.9(we have some patches applied to this).
I have root and boot filesystems as ext3 type. After
running some tests the system gets into a strange
state. I cannot move one file to another if that
destination file already exists. Here is some text
that can help you understand the problem:
.....
{lng}usersg_16: ls
{lng}usersg_17: touch aaa
{lng}usersg_18: ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 aaa
{lng}usersg_19: touch bbb
{lng}usersg_20: ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 aaa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 bbb
{lng}usersg_21: mv aaa bbb
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 aaa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 bbb
{lng}usersg_21: mv aaa ccc ------>(destination file doesn't exist)
{lng}usersg_22: ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 bbb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 usersg media 0 Sep 19 10:45 ccc
.....
The strace of the mv command shows that everything is done
correct and exits with code 0. A copy of file aaa to bbb
succeeds but a move fails.
I was just wondering if anything of this sort is in any
way related to some state of ext3 filesystem. Yet another
observation is that this problem is gone with a reboot.
Thanks in advance,
Girish
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