Re: 2.1.59 iput error message

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:56:57 -0500

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Donald R. Harter Jr. wrote:
> I got the following message when in debian, I ran dpkg-source on a cd
> instructing it to unpack the source to a vfat partition(03:01 device
> number, /dev/hda1).
> "iput: device 03:01 inode ________ count wrapped"
> This message appeared about 100 times with different inode numbers.
> I can reproduce these messages. I have 1 eide driver with 4 partitions
> and an iede cdrom on a separate eide controller.

Inode counts wrapping indicates a serious problem in vfat. I'll take a
quick look around there.

Regards,
Bill

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