From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.imc-berlin.de ([217.110.46.186] helo=mail.berlin.imc-berlin.de) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1816eC-0005PN-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:56:44 +0100 Received: from mailgate.berlin.imc-berlin.de (mailgate.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.0.13]) by mail.berlin.imc-berlin.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9ECwoLT018780 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:58:50 +0200 Received: from imc-berlin.de (scholz.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.2.10]) by mailgate.berlin.imc-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19766 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:56:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de) Message-ID: <3DAADB27.F0DD5A70@imc-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:56:39 +0200 From: Steven Scholz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: What means "Inode #10 was a directory with children" ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi there, I am using MTD/JFFS2 as root fs for my embedded system for some time now. It was working fine. But as my image grows bigger and bigger I get strange errors: While booting Linux I get ... NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Inode #10 was a directory with children - removing those too... Inode #11 was a directory with children - removing those too... VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init ... What does that mean? Sometimes he's complaining about hardlinks. Then for instance some links are not working correctly, i.e. power should be a link to busybox but has size zero. /etc/pcmcia should be a directory, but is a file containing garbage (i.e. some text that should be in a file in this directory). And what means: ~ # cat /etc/hosts Argh. Special inode #43 with mode 020600 had more than one node cat: Input/output error ??? cat should be a link to busybox. But "ls /bin" does not show cat ! I am using linux-2.4.19 on a ppc platform. Thanks very much! Steven