Steve Lord writes:
=> I suspect what you are seeing is due to running fsstress - it exercises
=> the bulkstat interface asking for random inode numbers - which in all
=> probability do not exist. It calculates a disk location based on the inode
=> number and reads the block into memory - it fails these checks if it is
=> not a real inode block and you get the error message.
=>
=> Irix exhibits exactly the same behavior with fsstress, this one is not a
=> bug it is a feature of the test program.
This confirms what I eventually worked out. I'll document this somewhere
useful and cross it off my list.
Thanks.
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