Re: Whee.. inode changed from under us. Tell Linus

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:54:57 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> Okay, that's a lousy way of triggering it. Try this (you'll like it, I
> promise):
>
> while true; do (touch test &); (cp test test2 &); (rm test &); done
I'm doing that on 4 different VTs, 4 partitions. 2 ext2, 1 fat16, and 1
fat32.

>
> And you'll be rewarded with a bunch of these:
>
> Whee.. inode changed from under us. Tell Linus
> EXT2-fs warning (device 08:01): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for
> inode 944193
All I got was a bunch of "d_alloc: 6289 unused, pruning dcache"s, and two
thrashing drives. Linux 2.1.62-clean (OK, newest OSS/free, which loged itself
into "uninitialized" state on insmod).

> Nathan Bryant

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