Orphaned inodes should only be deleted if their nlink has reached zero. Without this patch, doing direct I/O on a deleted file is likely to go wrong when the backing file is deleted before it is actually finished with. This change is applied upstream.
Created attachment 134798 [details] EXT3: Only delete orphaned inodes if they've got a non-zero nlink
committed in stream U5 build 42.18. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html