Re: Strange XFS corruption...

[Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Yep, when we got multiple entries here, neither check nor repair complained.
> I guess it's not fundamentally inconsistent from a filesystem integrity
> perspective, but it does not make the operating system happy.
> 
> We don't have a root cause for this one, we think it's another way
> that the shutdown problem exhibited itself.  If you can run the latest
> code (1.2pre5) the shutdown problem should be fixed, and if you see
> it again, let us know!

Well, I am now running from CVS as of Jan 11, 2003.  I have not seen
this elsewhere yet.

I wonder how the filesystem thought that this was "fine" since
all of the files (the multiple entries) showed exactly the same
date/size/etc.  (Albeit that may be due to the VFS layer - I am
not 100% clear on how those two interact)

However, I would think that XFS should not like having multiple
file node entries in a directory with the same identifier (file name).

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