[AUUG-Talk]: Solaris 8 Inode Issue

[Glenn Satchell]

Sounds like the filesystem is corrupted. I'd unmount the filesystem and
run fsck on it - that should clean things up. The missing directory may
appear in lost+found.

If you can't unmount, then mount read only, eg:

  mount -o remount,ro /what/ever
  fsck /dev/rdsk/...
  mount -o remount,rw /what/ever

regards,
-glenn
--
Glenn Satchell       mailto:glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au  |  Heard about
Uniq Advances Pty Ltd           http://www.uniq.com.au  |  the new Unix
PO Box 70 Paddington NSW Australia 2021                 |  sports car?
Mobile 0409 458 580  Ph 02 9380 6360  Fax 02 9380 6416  |  The  rwx

  
>X-Original-To: talk at auug.org.au
>From: Joel Sing <joel at ionix.com.au>
>To: AUUG Talk-list <talk at auug.org.au>
>Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:39:16 +1000
>Content-Disposition: inline
>Subject: [AUUG-Talk]: Solaris 8 Inode Issue
>X-BeenThere: talk at auug.org.au
>
>Hi All,
>
>One of our clients runs a SunFire V480 with Solaris 8. Around mid-July, the 
>nightly backup using ufsdump, started reporting the following warning during 
>the third pass:
>
>WARNING: Directory at inode 1067924 vanished.
>
>They are backing up a live filesystem, however I don't believe that it is the 
>cause of the problem since the inode number is always the same and it started 
>out of the blue. Neither ls nor find can locate anything using that inode - 
>my only thought is that a process may still hold a reference to it, 
>preventing it from being fully released by the kernel.
>
>Anyone else seen this? Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Joel 
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joel Sing (BComp(Hons))                          www.ionix.com.au
>
> System and Network Administrator, Software Developer and Director 
>
> Ionix Technology Pty. Ltd.             Email  : joel at ionix.com.au
> PO Box 2468,                           Mobile : +61 0419 577 603
> Bendigo VIC 3554                       Office : +61 03 5441 1226
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>_______________________________________________
>Talk - The AUUG discussion list.
>Talk at auug.org.au
>http://www.auug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/talk