From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Yan, Zheng " <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Subject: Re: btrfs: unlinked X orphans messages
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:55:09 +0800
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Xavier Nicollet <nicollet@jeru.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using btrfs for remote backups (via rsync), with daily and weekly
> snapshots.
>
> I see these messages in kern.log:
>
> Jul 18 07:09:43 backup1 kernel: [3437126.458374] btrfs: unlinked 9 orphans
> Jul 18 12:01:01 backup1 kernel: [3454604.905856] btrfs: unlinked 1 orphans
> Jul 18 13:01:51 backup1 kernel: [3458254.990199] btrfs: unlinked 1 orphans
> Jul 19 04:01:41 backup1 kernel: [3512244.236347] btrfs: unlinked 1 orphans
>
> Is this something I have to be afraid of ?
>
> Linux debian lenny, pure btrfs partition with no raid, vanilla kernel:
> 2.6.34.
>

Nothing to worry about.

Yan, Zheng