linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck repeatedly asks to clear the same entry?

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Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:34:56 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <aedilger@...il.com>
CC:	Mark Casey <markc@...fiedgroup.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck repeatedly asks to clear the same entry?

On 11/23/12 1:18 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2012-11-23, at 11:26, Mark Casey <markc@...fiedgroup.com> wrote:
>> I'm in a bit of a loop trying to fix my ext4 filesystem; it always
>> goes like this even after several passes.

...

> Normally I'd say that getting a e2image of the filesystem would be
> useful for debugging and to create a test case, but since the
> filesystem is 16TB in size that won't be practical.

It might not be that bad.  You could make a raw e2image, mount it,
remove some of the non-affected dir trees, (maybe make another e2image -r
of that modified image), and it might compress pretty well.

Just a thought, if the email debugging doesn't yield results.

-Eric
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