Re: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch

From: Adrian Cox (adrian@humboldt.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 04:11:20 EST


On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:20:47 -0700
"Frank Cusack" <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:19:38PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >>>>> " " == Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:
> > > At this point, fs/nfs/inode.c:__nfs_refresh_inode() prints
> > > the"inode number mismatch" error. AFAICT, this is just
> > > noise, but the noise is driving me crazy. :-)
> >
> > Inode number mismatch points to either an an obvious server error
> > (it is not providing unique filehandles) or corruption of the fattr
> > struct that was passed to nfs_refresh_inode().

There's a very common cause on embedded boards that don't have
real-time clocks. Without a clock the client uses the same XID on every
run, leading to lots of these messages. Is your clock broken?

- Adrian Cox
http://www.humboldt.co.uk/
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