On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:32:44AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > Over the last month or so, I've noticed the following error showing up > repeatedly in my system logs under kernel 2.4.18-ac3 and more recently > under 2.4.19-rc1: > > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 Erm, that looks like the old "out of inodes, return -ENOSPC and mark the filesystem read only" bug I found several months ago. iirc, there have been 3 recent issues (in the last three months) that I'm aware of: 1. running out of free blocks. 2. running out of free inodes. 3. i_nlink accounting goofup. I've got patches from akpm for (1) and (3), but not (2). I'd be nice to have all three solved for 2.4.19. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html