Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:41:19 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: Another captured nfs client message |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Also under high load > > nfs_safe_remove: anarchy/.Xauthority-n inode busy?? i_count=2 > nfs_safe_remove: anarchy/.Xauthority-c inode busy?? i_count=2 > nfs_safe_remove: hobbit/.Xauthority-n inode busy?? i_count=2 > nfs_safe_remove: hobbit/.Xauthority-c inode busy?? i_count=2 > > it has yet to fall over however - which is good so I dont know if this is > just a warning
That message is more troubling. Unless the files in question have hard links, we should not have a case where busy inodes are deleted. This sets up conditions for possible inode mode changes or file corruption -- the server has deleted the object and may reuse the inode number, but locally we still have an active copy.
If the extra inode count is from a hard link, there's no problem -- the object will still exist on the server because of its other link.
2.1.64 has fixes to avoid this problem in all the cases I've identified so far, but apparently there are more to be tracked down.
Regards, Bill
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