From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760239Ab3B0QoX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44:23 -0500 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:50283 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755004Ab3B0QoW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44:17 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Dave Jones , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: EXT4 corruption on Linus latest tree. Message-ID: <20130227164417.GF5609@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Dave Jones , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org References: <20130227154311.GA12450@redhat.com> <20130227155539.GA2638@pd.tnic> <20130227160446.GA4792@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130227160446.GA4792@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:919: inode #172235804: block 152052301: comm ls: bad entry in directory: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 > > Yeah, looks similar. The missing files/dirs reappeared when I > booted an older kernel, so it looks like the corruption doesn't > hit the disk. Fsck (1.42.5) didn't find anything either. I suspect I see the problem... can you send me the results of debugfs -R "stat <172235804>" /dev/sdb1 to confirm? Thanks, - Ted