Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?

[Mikael Pettersson]

Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 08:25, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > 
 > >  > In which kernel(s) exactly?  There was a fix for that applied fairly
 > >  > recently upstream.
 > > 
 > > I've been seeing this over the last couple of months, with
 > > (at least) 2.4.28 and newer, and 2.6.9 and newer standard kernels.
 > > But since I dual boot and switch kernels often, I can't point
 > > at any given kernel or kernel series as being the culprit.
 > 
 > Plain upstream 2.4.28?  If so, that's probably the trouble, as 2.4
 > doesn't have any xattr support, so if you delete a file on 2.4 it won't
 > delete the xattr block for it.

2.4.28 - certainly I've used that at lot.

 > > How recent was that fix? Maybe I'm seeing the aftereffects of
 > > pre-fix corruption?
 > 
 > It went in on the 15th of January this year.

Is it in 2.4.29?

/Mikael
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