Bug 182261

Summary: Deleted files reappear
Product: File System Reporter: shomari.sharpe
Component: ext4Assignee: fs_ext4 (fs_ext4)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: high    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: Intel   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 3.14 - 4.8.4 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description shomari.sharpe 2016-10-25 13:10:15 UTC 
Hi I have been noticing this problem intermittently for a while now starting with kernel 3.14. Files I delete days/weeks ago reappear mysteriously and they are fully intact. My most recent encounter is using my Xubuntu system with the following config:

ext2 = /boot
luks/ext4 = / (root) 


I deleted 4.7.6 / 4.8.0 kernels from my boot and also the /lib/modules for each and compiled and installed 4.8.4 only to notice that the files reappeared.
Comment 1 Theodore Tso 2016-10-26 20:40:55 UTC 
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:10:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> Hi I have been noticing this problem intermittently for a while now starting
> with kernel 3.14. Files I delete days/weeks ago reappear mysteriously and
> they
> are fully intact. My most recent encounter is using my Xubuntu system with
> the
> following config:
> 
> I deleted 4.7.6 / 4.8.0 kernels from my boot and also the /lib/modules for
> each
> and compiled and installed 4.8.4 only to notice that the files reappeared.

Did you uninstall the relevant Ubuntu package, or did you just delete
the fils using rm?  It could just simply be that Ubuntu was updating
to a newer version of that kernel version as it was updating other
packages on your system.

						- Ted