Re: Annoying free inode warnings

[Igor Khavkine]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:56:20PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > Would you accept a patch to add a configure option that removes the
> > annoying 'free inode' warning messages?  I can set it on by default,
> > if you'd like.
> > 
> > My final preference would be to leave it disabled until e2fsck is
> > willing to fix the problem when the FS is checked with -f, but having
> > a reasonable way to disable it for now would be enough.
> 
> I think that we can, if fact, safely ignore these warnings.  I have four
> partitions that I use actively.  Only one of them has ever been touched
> by Linux -- the root filesystem and it is the only one that ever
> produces these warnings.

I don't think the danger (or lack thereof) presented by these warnings
is being dsiputed. It is simply very annoying. I have a patition
for development that I use both in linux and Hurd. And when I run
a build from that partition while in Hurd, an inane amount of these
warnings floods the screen rendering it impossible to use even in
another terminal provided by `screen'.

Igor