Re: Nasty 2.1.70 fs problem

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:10:58 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

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>Okay! done. Will test.

The patch seems to not respect the POSIX standard. So even if it works
fine it will be default rejected (at least from official kernel release).

If `while :; do mkdir p; rmdir p;done` make disasters means that there is
a fs bug. Instead of try my patch, try to panic/crash the filesystem again.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli