Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Håkan Lindqvist
> Sent: Friday, 29 September 2006 1:49 AM
> To: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: xfs_repair said "cache_purge: shake on cache
> 0x80f5288 left 1inodes!?"
>
> Hi!
>
> When I ran xfs_repair (2.8.11) to fix a filesystem that had
> been bitten
> by the Linux 2.6.17.<7 bug the following happened:
>
> All seemed to go well, xfs_repair found the problematic
> directory inode
> and rebuilded it.
>
> At the end (right before printing "done"), it did however say
> "cache_purge: shake on cache 0x80f5288 left 1 inodes!?" thrice.
>
> The filesystem appears to be fine so far (and the directory that
> previously caused the filesystem to shut down is ok again), but that
> error/warning message sounded a little scary.
>
> Is this problem harmless or should I be worried?
This cache_purge comment is harmless. It's informing us that some buffers
have reference counts remaining that weren't unreferenced when read. All
dirty buffers do get written.
Barry.
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