Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:00:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ffs softdeps fix request Message-ID: <20050228185955.V50530@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20050228235123.GC81082@elvis.mu.org> References: <20050228235123.GC81082@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > There's an artifact of ffs softupdates that causes issues if a crash > occurs while deleting or creating files. > You should really ask Kirk about this sort of thing. > Basically, one can wind up with a directory that is empty, but the > link count is artificially high. Then you can have a directory > that is empty, but not removeable. It would be somewhat trivial > to add some code to check the directory's contents when a VOP_RMDIR > would have failed because of the link count check. > > But then my head went all explody when trying to figure out how > that would impact the background fsck in progress. > > Any ideas? > > -- > - Alfred Perlstein > - Research Engineering Development Inc. > - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684 >
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