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

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:34:51 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, James Mastros wrote:

>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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>I tried this and (eventually) got the following

Tried what? My underlined way to delete the directory tree I suppose.

>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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don' t understand, can explain me the concept in another way? Did you
have problem with the patch?

Andrea[s] Arcangeli