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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Root dentry has weird name <>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:19:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917161952.GD18661@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120917161753.GU17430@twin.jikos.cz>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 06:17:53PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I only have btrfs on my laptop and just started getting this.
> 
> Afaik, this is not directly related to btrfs. Search for the "Root
> dentry has weird name" message and you'll see occurences from kernel
> 3.0, 3.1.
> 
> > I'm not too clear about whether it's in memory or on my filesystem somewhere.
> 
> It's reflecting a in-memory state.
> 
> > Can you recommend what I should do: reboot? fsck somehow? other?
> 
> Reboot should help, also check for potential NFS problems, like
> unreachable server.

Thanks for your answer. I indeed should have searched that first instead of
assuming it was btrfs related.
I can also confirm that rebooting made the message go away.

Thanks for your answer and sorry for posting to the wrong list.

Marc
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14 17:09 Root dentry has weird name <> Marc MERLIN
2012-09-17 16:17 ` David Sterba
2012-09-17 16:19   ` Marc MERLIN [this message]

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