From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [opensuse] nfs_update_inode: inode X mode changed, Y to Z Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20080312221511.GC31632@fieldses.org> 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> <9a8748490803121513w285cd45rb6b26a3d842cac1b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Neil Brown , Adam Schrotenboer , Trond Myklebust , lkml@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Daniel To: Jesper Juhl Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:59030 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751864AbYCLWPP (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9a8748490803121513w285cd45rb6b26a3d842cac1b-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:13:23PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > 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. What was the exported filesystem? --b.