Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:52:32 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode |
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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 -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.
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