[Linux-cluster] Found unlinked inode

Wendy Cheng wcheng at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 19:55:04 UTC 2007


Borgström Jonas wrote:

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>Hi Wendy, thanks for your answer.
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>To answer your earlier question, the kernel version used is 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5. I just noticed that a never kernel version is available, but as far as I can tell this is a security release and the changelog doesn't mention any changes to the GFS filesystem...
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>So if I understood you correctly this is a known bug/limitation that might orphan already deleted inodes if a node crashes before gfs_inoded had a chance to free them. And the only downside is some lost disk space which can be reclaimed by running gfs_fsck. This is good news.
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Yes..

We'll look into this.

-- Wendy




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