.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "MAKE_BAD_INODE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME make_bad_inode \- mark an inode bad due to an I/O error .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void make_bad_inode (struct inode * \fIinode\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIinode\fB\fR Inode to mark bad .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP When an inode cannot be read due to a media or remote network failure this function makes the inode ``bad'' and causes I/O operations on it to fail from this point on.