From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272922AbTHEWIU (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:08:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272923AbTHEWIU (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:08:20 -0400 Received: from starcraft.mweb.co.za ([196.2.45.78]:21421 "EHLO starcraft.mweb.co.za") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272922AbTHEWIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:08:13 -0400 Subject: RE: [2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Christopher Li Cc: KML , akpm@digeo.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, ext3-users@redhat.com, x86-kernel@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <68F326C497FDB743B5F844B776C9B1460976FD@pa-exch4.vmware.com> References: <68F326C497FDB743B5F844B776C9B1460976FD@pa-exch4.vmware.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UpCXs5oQSZ5bJWVtEP7D" Message-Id: <1060121303.8355.47.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 06 Aug 2003 00:08:23 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-UpCXs5oQSZ5bJWVtEP7D Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:53, Christopher Li wrote: > >=20 > > I cannot really see that it is a Gentoo specific problem, but=20 > > who knows. > > I will try to get a CD of another distro somewhere, and get that on a > > box to test - currently work/whatnot just keeps me pretty tied up :( > > Another reason why I posted, is now that 2.6 is more widely=20 > > used/tested, > > its not only me that gets this, but other users as well - thus I hoped > > that somebody with more time wanted to have a crack at it. >=20 > I am not claiming it is a gentoo issue. I just want to duplicate > this bug with minimal damage to my box. >=20 Yep, I know, I just 'clarified' it in case somebody was wondering. > >=20 > > If it works fine (with a 2.6 kernel), I will go and bang my=20 > > head against > > a wall, and shutup until I can make time to try and track=20 > > this - if not, > > any ideas as to creating it outside the perl install (or=20 > > rather the man > > page part of the install process) would be great. > >=20 >=20 > You can do a strace on the perl install, then grep for all > the file changes happen on that directory. There is a good > chance follow the strace log can duplicate the bug also. Yep, did that. I had a simple c program once that tried to simulate all file operations on that file, and the 'real' man page that gets installed. Did not have the same effect however. Might be that I was off by something. Don't have it however anymore, as it was some months before, just before I mailed the first time. Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-UpCXs5oQSZ5bJWVtEP7D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/MCrVqburzKaJYLYRAg8YAJ4sLI6CQde/sN1KuIs5cJRWpSZUMACfZQGf q6CKb6kXtbJQOaXoVkiGmUE= =GdY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UpCXs5oQSZ5bJWVtEP7D--