Re: Fw: [POSSIBLE-BUG] telldir() broken on ext3 dir_index'd directoriesjust after the first entry.

[Jan Engelhardt]

>So instead what we need to do is wire '.' and '..' to have hash values
>of (0,0) and (2,0), respectively, without ignoring other existing
>dirents with colliding hashes.  (In those cases the programs will
>break, but they are statistically rare, and there's not much we can do
>in those cases anyway.)

IMO it's better to fix the mess all at once to have it weeded out for some
months.


Jan Engelhardt
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