> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> > Okay, that's a lousy way of triggering it. Try this (you'll like it, I
> > promise):
> >
> > while true; do (touch test &); (cp test test2 &); (rm test &); done
> I'm doing that on 4 different VTs, 4 partitions. 2 ext2, 1 fat16, and 1
> fat32.
>
> >
> > And you'll be rewarded with a bunch of these:
> >
> > Whee.. inode changed from under us. Tell Linus
> > EXT2-fs warning (device 08:01): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for
> > inode 944193
> All I got was a bunch of "d_alloc: 6289 unused, pruning dcache"s, and two
> thrashing drives. Linux 2.1.62-clean (OK, newest OSS/free, which loged itself
> into "uninitialized" state on insmod).
Sigh. I must have snipped too much context from my message: the discussion
was about pre-2.0.32-1 with ben's patch, not about 2.1.x. Sorry for the
confusion, folks!
Nathan Bryant
nathan@nbryan71.dorm.usm.maine.edu
nbryan71@mail.caps.maine.edu