linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc2: reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:42:19 -0700
From:	Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Cc:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc2: reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)

Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com> writes:

> Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> Hi Jeff
>> 
>> The kernel prints this message every 20seconds
>> [  836.973100]
>> [  836.983494] REISERFS warning (device sda2): jdm-20004
>> reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
>> [  836.983496]
>> [  894.203634] REISERFS warning (device sda2): jdm-20004
>> reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
>> [  894.203636]
>> [  894.205784] REISERFS warning (device sda2): jdm-20004
>> reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)
>> 
>> commit a41f1a4715
>> 
>> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
>> # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
>> # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
>> # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
>> 
>> I did not enable XATTR before,
>> should I enable it now ?
>
> You shouldn't need to, and you shouldn't be seeing those messages.
>
> What are you doing to reproduce it? I disabled the xattr config option,
> copied a directory tree over and removed it. I didn't see anything.

i see the same thing all the time. maybe not as often, but i get
plenty of these warnings. i have the same configuration as the above.
it started with 2.6.30-rc1 for me.

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