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Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?



On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:10:04AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-04-30 14:06:53 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > It sure looks like a bug. But it would be a bug at a spot where one would
> > expect that it should have bitten oodles of other people by now, so that
> > feeling that we must be missing something is as understandable.
> 
> Not necessarily. The bug might be new. It might be difficult to
> reproduce, in particular if there is a race condition behind. It
> might have occurred on other machines, but remained unnoticed,
> because to notice it, one needs a specific sequence of operations
> performed in a timely manner.

[...]

Yes, of course. I didn't say it can't be a bug. Just it may be
hard to convince people. As it is sporadic, it may be hard to
come up with a somewhat reliable reproducer.

Cheers
-- 
t

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