From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 13:37:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33CA37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FB143E42 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F5EB72FC5; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6D972D9E; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:35:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Glen Gibb Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the meaning of "got bad cookie" In-Reply-To: <20020830184914.D95974-100000@genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au> Message-ID: <20020830133430.K88354-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Glen Gibb wrote: > Today I received a few of the following messages on the console/in the > logs: > > Aug 30 17:09:00 genesis /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xcdea1200 bp > 0xc6547924 This generally means something changed on the server while you were using it, and NFS is invalidating use of that object. Commonly it happens when directories are moved or renamed. > Can anyone explain what this is about and whether it is a problem. (I > suspect it might be something to do with NFS as I was performing a du on > an NFS mounted directory at the time). Its normal. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message