Girish Sheelvant wrote: > 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: [SNIP] > 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. Possibly it's the following bug: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101362147103329&w=2 also http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101338613730184&w=2 regards, Juri -- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
