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SubjectRe: nfs inode busy message in 2.2.4
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:55:46PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Tom Holroyd <tomh@nibh.go.jp> writes:
>
> > Since I booted 2.2.4 (with the b_count patch), I have been seeing things
> > like this:
> >
> > kernel: __nfs_fhget: inode 218787 busy, i_count=2, i_nlink=1
> > kernel: nfs_free_dentries: found //ROCKY2.JPG, d_count=0, hashed=1
> > kernel: nfs_dentry_delete: //ROCKY2.JPG: ino=218787, count=2, nlink=1
> >
> > The file in question had been deleted many hours previously from an NFS
> > server on a Solaris system. The message was apparently triggered by a
> > cron job that does a find. The file had been moved to the server, used
> > there by a program running on the server, and then deleted (but now I
> > can't remember if I deleted it from the server side or the client side).
> > Anyhow it had a fairly short life. And the system was pretty quiescent
> > after that until the find ran.
>
> This is quite normal. It is just telling you that the inode number
> 218787 has been reused by the server, and that the cached dentry
> associated to 'ROCKY2.JPG' is therefore invalid. Since the d_count is
> 0, that means the dentry was not in use, so you will have no problems
> or side-effects.
>
> Cheers,
> Trond
>

Does it need to be so verbose ? Are all these 'debug' outputs
supposed to be commented in the future ? (Just for curiosity,
no critics here :-)

--
Thierry Danis
danis@spmo.sagem.fr

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