Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > A Dimecres 18 Maig 2011 10:42:53, Miklos Szeredi va escriure: >> Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking >> >> for all the gory details. > > ok, i'll look this, > >> So, is there a minimal test case that I can try to replicate the bad >> behavior? > > it's an occasional error, occurs when the system is occupied > processing diverse tasks at the same time, for example when startpar > is running in parallel the initialization of system daemons, this is > detected because some changes done by the same daemon program are > lost, (the case of consecutive sed instructions) This file, which modifications are lost, is this on the upper filesystem, the lower filesystem or both, before the modification? And after the modification? > or when doing a big > upgrade of the system packages, some files are lost. How are they lost? They don't exist when they should? What's the contents of the upper and lower filesystems? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html