Comment 44 for bug 330824

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 16:56 +0000, yaztromo wrote:
> Theodore,
>
> I set an rm -rf going of multiple copies of "The High Voltage SID
> collection", which in total is around 130,000 small files. At most two
> tries is usually enough to trigger the soft lock.
>
> I'm compiling RC1 now, thanks to Andrius' instructions. Will let you
> know the result.

Yes, my feeling has always been that this is an unlink (or generically,
"rm") race as I only saw it when two processes were processing file
removals (with one being "rm -rf") in two different directories.

Now what might be of relevance is that the two trees would have had
shared a high percentage of hard links. Maybe it's a race on deleting a
hard linked file?

b.