Bug#498134: your mail

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686
> Version: 2.6.26-4
> Severity: important
> 
> It appears that copy-on-write links don't always work, sometimes resulting
> in a lock up.  They are supposed to work this way:
> 
> echo "foo" >a
> ln a b
> setattr --iunlink a
> # Now both files are immutable but will break away on a write attempt.
> echo "bar" >>a
> # The files should be separated now...
> 
> Alas, this is not enough to reproduce.

Does this still occur with later kernel versions, such as 2.6.30?

Cheers,
        Moritz