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Re: Arla 0.7.2 returns stale cached metadata on Linux 2.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Jul 20 18:57:52 1998
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
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<amu@MIT.EDU> (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> 0.8's xfs.o gives me some new GPFs and many bogus ENODEVs. I'll let
> you know about the cache issues once I get the new problems resolved.
I don't think the new problems are Intel-specific. In particular, the
GPFs I saw and the one Brandon Allbery reported seem to have occurred
when something called free_xfs_node on a node whose XFS superblock
pointer was NULL, which presumably shouldn't have happened. I haven't
yet determined why it did....
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
