Found this bug testing extended attributes. # make a big symbolic link that is in the inode core and mostly fills it. # CRC enabled filesystem will use a 68 byte smaller link in the test. ln -s 1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/0123456/a a # the extended attribute will bump the symbolic link to a remote extent # I think only one of these attribute is needed, but they are so fun... attr -Rs 1234567890ad a < /dev/null attr -Rs 1234567890ae a < /dev/null attr -Rs 1234567890af a < /dev/null # the following remove will assert a debug kernel: # XFS: Assertion failed: ip->i_d.di_nextents == 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c, line: 2036 rm a _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs