#4184 BLOC First D: JFFS2 Dirent Anomaly

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#4184: JFFS2 Dirent Anomaly
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  Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |       Owner:  mstone                
      Type:  defect             |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  blocker            |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  kernel             |     Version:                        
Resolution:                     |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                  |  
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Comment(by wmb at firmworks.com):

 Here is a test script from Bertl that will reproduce the race condition
 issue:

 rm -f za zb zc zd
 echo five >za
 ln za zb; ln za zc; ln za zd
 setattr --iunlink za
 sysctl -w vserver.debug_misc=7
 touch ze
 touch za zb zc & touch zc zb za

 If you run that whole sequence about 10 times, then reboot and do an "ls",
 you will usually see

 ls: cannot access zb: No such file or directory  (or za or zc)

 Then, if you do "rm z*", then another "ls", one or more of the zN files
 will not have been deleted.

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