linux-ext4 - Re: Reoccurring ext3 errors: attempt to access beyond end of device, freeing blocks not in datazone

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Message-id: <20080522181827.GA3516@webber.adilger.int>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 12:18:27 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Bas van Schaik <bas@...es.nl>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reoccurring ext3 errors: attempt to access beyond end of	device,
 freeing blocks not in datazone

On May 21, 2008  00:02 +0200, Bas van Schaik wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 15629775440 / 8 = 0x74736E4A   (or in ascii 'Inst')
> > 13075964688 / 8 = 0x616C6C62   (or in ascii 'blla')
> > 15354014352 / 8 = 0x72657552   (or in ascii 'Ruer')
> >
> > Converting these numbers to hex:
> >
> > 1953721929 = 0x74736E49  (or in ascii 'Jnst')
> > 1634495585 = 0x616C6C61  (or in ascii 'alla'
> >  543517044 = 0x20656974  (or in ascii 'tie ')
> > 1919251793 = 0x72657551  (or in ascii 'Quer')
> >
> > Given that it's all ascii, it looks like the indirect block somehow
> > was overwritten, or was substituted by text.
>
> Ah, such a lead was exactly what I was looking for, now I at least know
> where those bogus numbers were coming from. Maybe a very dump question:
> you seem to have reverse the ascii "translation", why? And shouldn't
> "Jnst" be "Inst"? Note also that the "translations" seem to resemble
> each other a little bit: "Jnst" = "Jnst", "alla" looks like "blla" and
> "Ruer" looks like "Quer". Coincidence?

Or it is possible you are getting single-bit errors somewhere along
your IO path, and another single-bit error has resulted in this data
being written to the wrong block to begin with...


Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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