Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

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.

> 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.

--Stephen

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