JFFS2: scan leaves dirent for inode which has no valid data nodes

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Apr 27 09:59:20 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 11:40 +0400, Dmitry Bazhenov wrote:
> 1. Should the scan process during mounting mark as obsolete dirent
> nodes which has no valid data nodes?

Maybe. We don't keep track of such things though -- and when we detect
it we _know_ there's something wrong, so it's not clear that writing to
the file system is the right thing to do.

> 2. Is this a bug when such dirent exists and there is no chanse to 
> create/read/write a file with the same name?

You should still be able to unlink it.

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dwmw2





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