Re: "while :; do mkdir;cd mkdir;done" [2.1.71] fix

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:08:44 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >PS. How can force the deleting of a tree created without the patch? I
> >tried kill_file with debugfs, but then fsck attach the tree to
> >lost+found...
>
> Excuse me, I just find a way:
> while :; do mv pippo/pippo ./p; rmdir pippo; mv p/pippo pippo;rmdir p;done
>
> Andrea[s] Arcangeli

I tried this and (eventually) got the following
Invalid link (0xc03043d0): expected 0xc13a3988, got 0xc09c21e8
Filesystem panic (dev 03:01).
...
File system has been set read-only

This was _quite a bit_ after trying this.

-=- James Mastros

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