Re: [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode

Andreas Dilger
2007-06-05T03:52:43Z

On Jun 04, 2007 19:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What caused those inodes to be bad, anyway? Memory allocation failures?

This can happen if e.g. NFS has a stale file handle - it will look up
the inode by inum, but ext3_read_inode() will create a bad inode due to
i_nlink = 0.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.