Hi,
I have an inconsistent behavior in a ext3 file system.
Here are the result of 2 ls commands done within a few minutes of time :
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# ls -ld 00/00071/0007113*
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:40
00/00071/00071130
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:40
00/00071/00071131
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-08-10 23:31
00/00071/00071132
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-08-10 23:31
00/00071/00071133
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:40
00/00071/00071135
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:40
00/00071/00071137
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# ls -ld 00/00071/0007173*
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-08-10 23:31 00/00071/00071731
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:42 00/00071/00071733
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-10 16:36 00/00071/00071734
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-07 20:42 00/00071/00071736
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-04-05 00:33 00/00071/00071738
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-08-10 23:31 00/00071/00071739
In between, nothing but some navigation in the directory structure, with
some cd or ls commands... For info, the 00071 directory contains around
700 sub-entries.
It's sure that no other program running in the background move or change
anything in this directory structure.
Another manifestation of the same problem :
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# cd 00/00071/00071134
-bash: cd: 00/00071/00071134: No such file or directory
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# ls -ld 00/00071/00071734
drwxr-sr-x 2 webadmin webadmin 4096 2007-09-10 16:36 00/00071/00071734
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# ls -l 00/00071/00071734
total 528
-rw-r--r-- 1 webadmin webadmin 93401 2007-04-05 00:33 Bill.pdf
<-- cut : the listing works well. All files are correctly
listed -->
www1:/data/documents/upload/bill/invoices# cd 00/00071/00071134
-bash: cd: 00/00071/00071134: No such file or directory
This occurs on a highly used production server, so we cannot easily
reboot or unmount this filesystem for fsck... and a fortiori we cannot
neither try to upgrade any lib.
The kernel version is 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Thu May 19 17:27:55 JST
2005.
The impacted filesystem is ext3.
I can't find any referenced bug that looks like this problem.
Any clue ?
MD.
