Hi!

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These seems to be different, at least it newer occured so often to me. Now
installing debian packages often fails because it cannot remove temporary
files, the filesystem worked reasonably good before.

The usecase is to unpack archive with a lot rather small files somewhere deeper
to the filesystem tree. Eg. installing gtk2-devel failed miserably when trying
to move all the header files from *.h.dpkg-new to *.h, this works rather good
with old driver.

Well, I remember opkg crashes while installing emacs (many small files)
and file system corruption as well. Both with kernel 2.6.26.

The main difference is that now it's 100% reproducible and I've never seen
corruption bad enough so I could not delete files without doing fsck first.

Here is pseudo output from fsck on ext3 filesystem after these problems
appeared:

Pass 2:

Bunch of these:

Invalid HTREE directory inode $NUMBER
$PATH/$FILE
Clear HTree index<y>?

and these:

Problem in HTree directory inode $NUMBER: block #$NR has bad max hash

Pass 3:

Bunch of:

Entry '$FILE in $PATH ($NUMBER) has a non-unique filename.
Rename to $FILE~0<y>?

Happily the files/directories affected was only the recently written from the
kernel from marex tree.  I haven't seen file content to be corrupted (that
doesn't mean there weren't any corruptions) but it seems they are not so likely
as directory tree corruption.

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metan