Arthur Jones wrote: > This one's turning out to be a slippery fish. > I have found that the corruption appears to > be due to ->writepage() not getting called at all > for any of the long symlinks... > > Ring any bells anyone? Any ideas where to look > or what to test? This is my first foray into > ext3 and I could definitely use some expert advice... > > Arthur Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :) I can reproduce this at least, with this script: #!/bin/bash umount /mnt/test2 mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2 rm -f /mnt/test2/* dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test2/bigfile bs=1M count=512 touch /mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename ln -s /mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename /mnt/test2/link umount /mnt/test2 mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2 ls /mnt/test2/ umount /mnt/test2 I'll look into it ... -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html