On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx> wrote: > In a largish directory (21292 files) a scan using ext3 readdir > found 21293 files, returning one entry twice. > > Google "ext3 readdir twice" gives me a handful of identical complaints. > I see reports from 2002-2008. > So, this is an old and well-known symptom but seemingly still not fixed, > at least not in the kernel on this machine here. > This report is for Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) with kernel 2.6.24.5. > > A 2002 post says "This is unfortunate, but the chances of our hitting > this failure are relatively small". > > In http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2008-August/msg00009.html > tytso seems to understand what happens: a hash collision. > But has this been fixed in the current tree? Yes, it has been fixed, please see the following git commits: 6a897cf447a83c9c3fd1b85a1e525c02d6eada7d 8c9fa93d51123c5540762b1a9e1919d6f9c4af7c Mike -- 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
