Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 21:14:28 EST


On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > Is there a 2.6.10 patch that I could apply? Or do you have any other
> > suggestions.
>
> AFAIK the best you can do is to get the most recent XFS kernel from
> SGI's CVS (this one is based on 2.6.10).

The -mm tree also has these fixes; we'll get them merged into
mainline soon.

> If you run that kernel, then most of the former problems will be gone;
> *) I only have one undeletable directory on my system - so it seems that
> this error is no longer common ;)

You may need to run xfs_repair to clean that up..? Or does
the problem persist after a repair?

cheers.

--
Nathan
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