From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762865AbXFEDFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757182AbXFEDFb (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:05:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50307 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756556AbXFEDFa (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:05:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4664D2C6.4040804@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:04:38 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vasily Averin CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , devel@openvz.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie , adilger@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: [PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list check on destroy_inode References: <4663A0BF.9010008@sw.ru> In-Reply-To: <4663A0BF.9010008@sw.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vasily Averin wrote: > Customers claims to ext3-related errors, investigation showed that ext3 orphan list has been corrupted and have the reference to non-ext3 inode. The following debug helps to understand the reasons of this issue. Vasily, does your customer have this patch in place? http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org/msg00889.html If not, perhaps it could be leading to the same error, because the inode will not be properly removed from the orphan inode list when it is freed, and could then be recycled... -Eric