[PLUG] Orphaned inodes

Frank Filz ffilzlnx at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 28 15:16:36 UTC 2019


> What happens to cause inodes to become orphaned? I assume the parents
> aren't deported from the system ... or are they?

How are you seeing orphaned inodes?

An orphan inode should be visible somehow if it represents an open but
unlinked file, in that case, that inode will disappear automatically when
the file is closed.

If the filesystem transactions aren't working right, an orphan inode could
occur if there was a crash or something during an unlink and the directory
update was made permanent but the inode cleanup didn't occur.

Frank




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