kernel: HAMMER: WARNING: Missing inode for dirent

Siju George sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 06:18:25 PDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Matthew
Dillon<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>    Were you accessing a snapshot or the live filesystem at the time of
>    the warning?
>

I was accessing the live file system.

>    The snapshots have an occassional issue in that the snapshot can be
>    taken inbetween the creation of an inode and the related directory
>    entry.  From the snapshot's point of view the directory entry exists
>    but the inode does not.
>

Snapshots are disabled in my case. So that must not be the reason I guess
There was a lot of Data being written to the pfs in this case.
backuppc was rsyncing GBs of Data from 3 differrent machines and
hammer mirror-stream was mirroring it to the slave pfs on the fly.

Thanks for your reply :-)

--Siju





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