ext3 htree issues

[Andreas Dilger]

On May 23, 2004  12:36 +1000, Adam Cassar wrote:
> I am running ext3 on kernel v2.6.5.
> 
> I have an ext3 filesystem with dir_index and data=journal for
> /var/spool/exim
> 
> Today I noticed in the exim logs a bunch of 'failed to unlink
> /var/spool/exim/input/P/1BRbSP-0006hy-Jp-D'
> 
> I also noticed these in the kernel logs:
> 
> EXT3-fs warning (device hda12): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file
> (612870), 0
> EXT3-fs warning (device hda12): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file
> (22203), 0
> 
> I have never seen this before with exim and ext3. This is the first time
> I have tried running htree on the exim spool however.

I will posted an updated patch to ext3-devel for this problem in the
thread "problems with ext3 fs, kernels up to 2.6.6-rc2".

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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