On Jun 04, 2007 19:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > What caused those inodes to be bad, anyway? Memory allocation failures? This can happen if e.g. NFS has a stale file handle - it will look up the inode by inum, but ext3_read_inode() will create a bad inode due to i_nlink = 0. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html