Re: iput warnings

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:21:34 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> Some network modules have static structures of "i-node" datas, and
> iput()ing those will produce these warnings, although they are harmless.
> Where did these occur ? At rmmod of IPv6 ? Somewhere else ?

As far as I remember I was just compiling stuff. I left it overnight and
in the morning the screen was full up with "Bad inode number" warnings. I
used SysRq to remount everything read-only and rebooted. It couldn't
mount the root partition because the superblock had been corrupted.

Tim.
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