From: markus@mwhh.hanse.de (Markus Witt) Subject: Re: 2 files with the same name in single directory, 0.99pl3, extfs Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:57:59 GMT
probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
[regarding two files with the same name in one directory]
> This hasn't come up in a while, but it can happen. Linus posted a while
> back that if you thrash the file system hard enough then multiple files
> with the same names can be created like this. To get rid of them is easy
> though.
>
> If you just type rm <filename>, then the first one it finds will be deleted,
> and the second one left alone. If you want to save the first one, just mv
> it to a different name, since again it will be the first one found.
Is this a bug in the file systems, in the kernel or what?
How likely is this to happen. What do you call "trash the fs hard enough?"
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