From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Brunner Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.35 (Ubuntu 10.10): Unable to mount (orphan list) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:46:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using btrfs on Ubuntu 10.10 for some test partitions. >>> After doing some normal operations I suddenly couldn't mount the partition anymore. >>> I always get the error "BTRFS: inode 120790 still on the orphan list" in the kernel log again and again and it's impossible to stop >the mount command or shutdown the system. >>> Any ideas how to work around this issue? >> >>Josef was looking at this recently but the fixes had problems for .38 >>and we had to push them off. >> >>Which kernel is ubuntu on? >> >>-chris > >I tried the official maverick kernel (2.6.35.25.32) and the ppa kernel 2.6.38-rc6. > >-tobru Are you speaking of this patch? https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/530421/ I'd like to help troubleshooting this issue. Any hint how I can help? Can I manually correct this orphan list? It would be very nice if I can mount this partition again and not lose it's data. BTW: It's always the same inode number... Tobias