Re: Weird ext2fs immortal directory bug (all-in-one)

[Gerhard Mack]

It should probably not allow things to be both a directory and a symlink
as well.  I asked the original poster and he indicated the permissions
were "all on" when he first discovered the file. Clearly that's not
a combination fsck should let pass.

 
	Gerhard
 

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Chris Wing writes:
> > I am assuming that the problem here was that fsck restored a lost inode to
> > lost+found, but the inode had been corrupted and had the immutable bit
> > set.
> > 
> > At the very least, ext2 fsck should complain about ext2 attributes set for
> > symlinks or device files... I have had this same problem myself many times
> > on machines with bad SCSI termination- I end up with unremovable device
> > files thanks to a bogus immutable bit and have to use debugfs to get rid
> > of them.
> 
> It should actually assume that such inodes are corrupt, and either just
> delete them at e2fsck time, or at least clear the "bad" parts of the inode
> before sticking it in lost+found.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 
> PS - I CC'd Ted on this, as he can probably fix this a lot faster than I
>      (I may be able to fix it during another OLS presentation today or
>      tomorrow).
> -- 
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