Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

[Jan Kasprzak]

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 <date> <filename>").
[...]
: 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

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