Hi, On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:09:28 +0100, Philippe CHATAIGNON wrote: > Hi all, > > I use nilfs2 on a lvm partition for recording dvb streams : it creates > big files and I often deleted them quickly so there only a few files on the partition. > > Today I notice a problem : where a new file were created, it takes the same inode that a file already have. > So the previous file were lost, like if an hard link was made. > > philippe@micro11:~$ ls -li $v > total 30051016 > 14 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 93849600 6 févr. 14:51 f2_20110130_174456.ts > 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 8606489600 9 janv. 15:42 f3_20110107_205154.ts > 14 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 93849600 6 févr. 14:51 f3_20110206_144851.ts > 19 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 10623052800 6 févr. 19:55 f3_20110206_145141.ts > 15 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 4688870400 19 janv. 23:14 f4_20110119_204007.ts > > The file created today is f3_20110206_144851.ts : it reuse inode 14 > that the file f2_20110130_174456.ts already had. On the third column, you can see there > is only one link (and not 2 as if ln was used). > > Of course, I can use a snapshot to recover the old file (f2_20110130_174456.ts). > > philippe@micro11:~$ ls mnt/snap2/capture -li > total 32584848 > 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 4812800 5 févr. 17:43 canal_20110205_172318.ts > 14 -rw-r--r-- 0 philippe users 13390412800 31 janv. 01:00 f2_20110130_174456.ts This directory list is already broken because the link count of "f2_20110130_174456.ts" is zero. Can you track the past state of this file from earlier checkpoints ? Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi > 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 8606489600 9 janv. 15:42 f3_20110107_205154.ts > 15 -rw-r--r-- 1 philippe users 4688870400 19 janv. 23:14 f4_20110119_204007.ts > > I run Archlinux x86_64 on 2.6.37. It's my first bug report. > Ask me for additionnal information if I could help. > > Regards, > > PhC > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html