In addition I received the following stack trace when unmounting the file system. sb orphan head is 22203 sb_info orphan list: inode hda12:29794 at d85e6b1c: mode 100640, nlink -1, next 0 Assertion failure in ext3_put_super() at fs/ext3/super.c:412: "list_empty(&sbi->s_orphan)" ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:412! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0182a56>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.5) EIP is at ext3_put_super+0xde/0x144 eax: 0000005e ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: c02fe3c4 esi: f0d8a000 edi: f0d8b108 ebp: f797b200 esp: c6d59f04 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process umount (pid: 1937, threadinfo=c6d58000 task=f787c280) Stack: c02bd800 c02bd7e0 c02bd7d0 0000019c c02bd7b5 f797b250 f797b200 c0304440 c6d58000 c014b341 f797b200 f797b200 f7c1f500 0804ff20 c014bd3e f797b200 f797b200 c03045c0 c014b19e f797b200 f7fe7540 f797b200 c015ea02 f797b200 Call Trace: [<c014b341>] generic_shutdown_super+0x9d/0x160 [<c014bd3e>] kill_block_super+0x12/0x28 [<c014b19e>] deactivate_super+0x46/0x94 [<c015ea02>] __mntput+0x1e/0x24 [<c01517ec>] path_release+0x28/0x30 [<c015f0c5>] sys_umount+0x69/0x74 [<c013c9e0>] sys_munmap+0x38/0x58 [<c015f0dc>] sys_oldumount+0xc/0x10 [<c0106b83>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 0f 0b 9c 01 d0 d7 2b c0 83 c4 14 6a 00 8b 85 94 00 00 00 50 On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 12:36, Adam Cassar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am running ext3 on kernel v2.6.5. > > I have an ext3 filesystem with dir_index and data=journal for > /var/spool/exim > > Today I noticed in the exim logs a bunch of 'failed to unlink > /var/spool/exim/input/P/1BRbSP-0006hy-Jp-D' > > I also noticed these in the kernel logs: > > EXT3-fs warning (device hda12): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file > (612870), 0 > EXT3-fs warning (device hda12): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file > (22203), 0 > > I have never seen this before with exim and ext3. This is the first time > I have tried running htree on the exim spool however. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users