On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0800, yangerkun wrote:
> ext4_rename will create a special inode for whiteout and use this 'ino'
> to replace the source file's dir entry 'ino'. Once error happens
> latter(small ext4 img, and consume all space, so the rename with dst
> path not exist will fail due to the ENOSPC return from ext4_add_entry in
> ext4_rename), the cleanup do drop the nlink for whiteout, but forget to
> restore 'ino' with source file. This will lead to "deleted inode
> referenced".
Could you sendhave instructions how to reproduce this failure? Many thanks!!
- Ted
