Negative inode-nr ?

Negative inode-nr ?

[Jakob Østergaard]

Hello all,

I was investigating a problem we believed we had with our monitoring
software (from sysorb.com), where it failed to report the number of
free and allocated inodes.

However, looking into the problem I found that it's the kernel that's
returning bogus values.

What do you think of this ?
[root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 
157097	-180

The number of free inodes is negative !  I find it hard to believe that
that's correct.

Kernel:  2.4.4 on i686

All filesystems are ext2fs.

If you need more information, let me know.

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Re: Negative inode-nr ?

[Rik van Riel]

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On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> What do you think of this ?
> [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 
> 157097	-180

I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro
fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1.

regards,

Rik
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Re: Negative inode-nr ?

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:10PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> 
> > What do you think of this ?
> > [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 
> > 157097	-180
> 
> I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro
> fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1.

Thank you Rik (and others who sent me roughly the same answer)

Now *that's* support  ;)

Cheers,

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Re: Negative inode-nr ?

[Daniel Phillips]

On Saturday 19 May 2001 18:33, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> > What do you think of this ?
> > [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr
> > 157097	-180
>
> I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro
> fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1.

What was the bug and how was it fixed?

/me wishes one more time for an applied-patch history.

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Daniel