On 07/03/2008, Neil Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday March 5, [email protected] wrote:
> > Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Wednesday March 5, [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > > Where :-)
> > >
> > > A excerpt from the logs to show actual error messages could be
> > > helpful.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > NeilBrown
> > sorry, must have missed the paste
> >
> > Feb 28 17:27:58 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3221350147 mode
> > changed, 0040755 to 0100644
> > Feb 28 21:57:22 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 2149056279 mode
> > changed, 0040755 to 0100755
> > Mar 5 01:43:21 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473680 mode
> > changed, 0040755 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 08:52:19 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473568 mode
> > changed, 0120777 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 15:00:01 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473569 mode
> > changed, 0120777 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 15:00:31 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473674 mode
> > changed, 0120777 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 15:00:31 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473675 mode
> > changed, 0120777 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 15:00:31 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473672 mode
> > changed, 0040755 to 0100644
> > Mar 5 15:00:31 koi kernel: nfs_update_inode: inode 3222473673 mode
> > changed, 0120777 to 0100644
> >
> >
>
> Hmmm...
> Directories and symlinks "changing" to regular files.
>
> 32bit inode numbers with the high bit set.
>
> Random times, but a burst at 3pm one afternoon.
>
> The fact that it happens so rarely make is very hard to collect more
> data....
>
I've reported this problem in the past for 2.6.13.4, so it's not a new problem.
Happens very rarely indeed.
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/26/102 and
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/1/53 for details.
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