Re: Root dentry has weird name <>

Marc MERLIN
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:19:52 -0000

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 06:17:53PM +0200, David Sterba
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I only have btrfs on my laptop and just started getting this.
>
> Afaik, this is not directly related to btrfs. Search for the "Root
> dentry has weird name" message and you''ll see occurences from
kernel
> 3.0, 3.1.
>
> > I''m not too clear about whether it''s in memory or on
my filesystem somewhere.
>
> It''s reflecting a in-memory state.
>
> > Can you recommend what I should do: reboot? fsck somehow? other?
>
> Reboot should help, also check for potential NFS problems, like
> unreachable server.

Thanks for your answer. I indeed should have searched that first instead of
assuming it was btrfs related.
I can also confirm that rebooting made the message go away.

Thanks for your answer and sorry for posting to the wrong list.

Marc
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