Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763024AbXFEDwn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:52:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760413AbXFEDwf (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:52:35 -0400 Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:39626 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760205AbXFEDwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:52:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:52:32 -0600 From: Andreas Dilger To: Andrew Morton Cc: Vasily Averin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , devel@openvz.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode Message-ID: <20070605035232.GC5181@schatzie.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Vasily Averin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , devel@openvz.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie References: <4663A0CE.102@sw.ru> <20070604190340.dba85bb0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070604190340.dba85bb0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 617 Lines: 18 On Jun 04, 2007 19:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > What caused those inodes to be bad, anyway? Memory allocation failures? This can happen if e.g. NFS has a stale file handle - it will look up the inode by inum, but ext3_read_inode() will create a bad inode due to i_nlink = 0. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/