On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:56:27AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-24 at 09:50, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...] > Since writing that, I've had occasion to remember the term 'dirent', > which I think is more the in-memory representation of a directory than > the on-disk representation, but might be borrow-able for the purpose. Ah, old memories. Bach and that :-) > >> It does seem to suggest that, but when I run > >> > >> $ /sbin/e2fsck /tmp/testfs > >> > >> on the tiny filesystem created as in my previous mail, it doesn't > >> report finding any problems and seem to change anything. > > > > Hm. You gave it the -f option? Otherwise, if the file system is > > marked "clean", e2fsck might choose the lazy option :-) > > Indeed I hadn't, and you're right, with that I get lengthier output and > the file's timestamp does get updated (which previously it hadn't). > However, when I examine the file with vbindiff afterwards, the slash is > still there. That's somewhat funny. No time ATM to step with gdb through that :-( Cheers -- t
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