Re: nasty inode leak in 2.1.125? details

Tomasz Przygoda (tprzyg@securities.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 20:51:33 -0500


Hmmm... I have something like below in messages every time I reboot:

Oct 27 20:09:41 market kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Oct 27 20:09:41 market kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=4
Oct 27 20:09:41 market kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... <3>error
-16
Oct 27 20:09:41 market kernel: Change root to /initrd: error -2

I use initrd to load modules for DPT PM3334 (eata.o) and AIC-7860
(aic7xxx.o) and that's it. So far I was totally ignoring this message
as it wasn't any harmful to the box.
I happens with any 2.1.x I tried there (2.1.105 - 2.1125) It's an SMP
box if it helps.

Is it the same story? Is it dentry leak? Should I worry?

Actually recently (this was the first incident like that) I had a
situation that the / partition was showing it's clean. but it had errors
(actually warnings) while running in the system. I remounted it ro and
e2fsck -f to get that corrected, but I'm trying to figure out how that
could happened that a file system with errors might be perceived as a
clean one???

Please email me if you need any details or have any questions about the
above.

-- Tomek,
"In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice...."

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