> Please understand that I've spend the last few days trying to reconstruct
> a working system. I haven't even completely finished yet.
>
> Soon after getting those iput warnings, every single one of my mounted
> partitions was corrupted (I managed to salvage a few files from one).
> Most of them refused to mount because of "unsupported extended options".
>
> I want to get a completely functional system again, so that I can back up
> its state, before trying to reproduce this problem.
Hmm, it sounds like perhpas the funny inode messages were just a side-effect. If
your disks became badly corrupted, possibly some rare error exits in ext2 could
result in inode count wrapping.
Hope you can get your system back to full operation.
Regards,
Bill