From: "Jesper Juhl" Subject: Re: [opensuse] nfs_update_inode: inode X mode changed, Y to Z Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:13:23 +0100 Message-ID: <9a8748490803121513w285cd45rb6b26a3d842cac1b@mail.gmail.com> References: <47CF0829.4020502@m2000.com> <1204752463.5035.34.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <47CF157B.1010908@m2000.com> <18383.24847.381754.517731@notabene.brown> <47CF62C5.7000908@m2000.com> <18384.50909.866848.966192@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "Adam Schrotenboer" , "Trond Myklebust" , lkml@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, "Thomas Daniel" To: "Neil Brown" Return-path: Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.183]:35894 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755119AbYCLWN2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:13:28 -0400 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2030649ele.17 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:13:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18384.50909.866848.966192-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/03/2008, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday March 5, adam-PMR2DCmmWYEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote: > > Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Wednesday March 5, adam-PMR2DCmmWYEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 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. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html