Thanks! That will probably cure the problem rapidly :)  !!!

 - Peter -

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Bruce Janson wrote:

>     ..
>     Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
>     From: "Peter J. Braam" <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
>     ..
>     To: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
>     ..
>     Yes it is Coda and it is bad: this is one of the remaining kernel bugs
>     that we are trying to track down.  These alias messages lead to wild
>     pointers, since dentry's continue to exist, but the inodes they point to
>     are being freed. 
>     
>     If anyone can easily produce alias messages, I'd love to know how to nail
>     the bug!
>     ..
> 
> Hi Peter,
>     I have had some success with the following script:
> 
> 	$ cat aliases
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 
> 	>/tmp/a
> 
> 	while :
> 	do
> 		ln /tmp/a /tmp/b
> 		rm /tmp/b
> 	done
> 	$ 
> 
> Here, /tmp is a file system which uses the Linux Coda kernel 
> interface (Linux 2.1.107, Coda 4.6.0).
> The above script usually produces an `alias' message
> immediately, followed by a cascade of random errors.
> 
> Hope it crashes your filesystem too (and I mean that in the
> nicest possible way).
> 
> Regards,
> bruce.
>