ReiserFS on RedHat 8.0 - "dead inode read from disk", but disks are fine...

[Richard Hobbs]

Hello,

I have a RH8 server here with 2 identical Maxtor 250GB hard drives. I am
using Soft-RAID to mirror every single partition on these drives (RAID 1).

This machine does appear to function ok, but i am seeing lots of the
following messages on the console:

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[root at stg-it2 root]# dmesg | tail -10
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 11266
0x0 SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 10879
0x0 SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 10879
0x0 SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1251 6078 0x0
SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 5380 0x0
SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 8526 0x0
SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1317 6650 0x0
SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1251 16144
0x0 SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1194 16868
0x0 SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [1251 5222 0x0
SD]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
[root at stg-it2 root]#
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I have used Maxtor's disk-checking utility, which has certified both
drives as error-free, but these errors continue to appear.

Can anyone please let me know why this is happening and what can be done
about it?

Thank you in advance,
Richard.

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