Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: severe FS corruption with 2.4.6-pre2 + IBM jfs 0.3.4 patch

From: Luigi Genoni (kernel@Expansa.sns.it)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 04:08:51 EST


On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> rm -rf not working correctly is a kind of show stopper bug ATM though.
> Hopefully it can be fixed soon.

with too many files inside of a directory this was a bug also under
AIX 3.2.5, and could be used for any kind of DoS.
Just with AIX 4.1.X this bug disappeared and we also got the
possibility to use a block size smaller than 1024

Luigi

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