Re: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:41:51 -0700
"Chris Carlson" <c.carlson@aristoslogic.com> wrote:

> 
> We are running MontaVista Embedded Linux 2.4 with NetApps NFS servers as 
> the root filesystem and Linux 2.6 mounted filesystems.  A simple test 
> runs to copy files from one mount point to another (both are different 
> directories on the same NFS server mounted at differet points).
> 
> After 30 copies of a hundred files are made, the system is rebooted and 
> the test repeats.
> 
> After 2 reboots, an NFS file is created, and we get the following error 
> from the kernel:
> 
> nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch
> expected (0x11/0xdacea3), got (0x11/0xb8d5e3)
> 

This may be a bug in the NetApp. I saw some similar messages when
working on an issue and it turned out to be a filer bug. I ended
up tracking it down by doing network captures, and then searching them
for the 'expected' and 'got' sequence of bytes in wireshark. It showed
that in some cases the netapp was sending back a new fileid in the
WCC attributes for the dir when a create call would fail.

> We're just trying to figure out what to do to figure out what the 
> problem is.  Is there a good place to place printks or breakpoints?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
> 
> Chris Carlson
> 
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