From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261850AbULUSnZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:43:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261868AbULUSnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:43:24 -0500 Received: from anor.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.35]:10468 "EHLO anor.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261865AbULUSnL (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:43:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:43:04 +0100 From: Jan Kasprzak To: Christoph Hellwig , Jakob Oestergaard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kruty@fi.muni.cz Subject: Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0 Message-ID: <20041221184304.GF16913@fi.muni.cz> References: <20041209125918.GO9994@fi.muni.cz> <20041209135322.GK347@unthought.net> <20041209215414.GA21503@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041209215414.GA21503@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Muni-Spam-TestIP: 147.251.48.42 X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: : > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote: : > > I have seen the strange problem on our NFS server: yesterday I have : > > found an empty file owned by UID 0/GID 0 and st_mode == 0 in my home : > > directory (ls -l said "?--------- 1 root root 0 "). [...] : If it's really st_mode I suspect it's a different problem. Can you retry : with current oss.sgi.com CVS (or the patch below). Note that this patch : breaks xfsdump unfortunately, we're looking into a fix. : : > > Maybe some data is flushed in an incorrect order? : > : > Maybe :) : : No, the problem I've fixed was related to XFS getting the inode version : number wrong - or at least different than NFSD expects. : We have applied these two patches to 2.6.10-rc2, but this does not help. A few minutes ago I've got the "?----------" file again from my test script. This time it took >4 hours (it was about an hour or so without this patch). -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Czech Linux Homepage: http://www.linux.cz/ | > Whatever the Java applications and desktop dances may lead to, Unix will < > still be pushing the packets around for a quite a while. --Rob Pike <