linux-ext4 - Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:03:00 +0200
From:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christian Brandt <brandtc@...5.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:43:30AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 03/27/2011 07:28 AM, Christian Brandt wrote:
> >Situation: External 500GB drive holds lots of snapshots using lots of
> >hard links made by rsync --link-dest. The controller went bad and
> >destroyed superblock and directory structures. The drive contains
> >roughly a million files and four complete directory-tree-snapshots with
> >each roughly a million hardlinks.
> >
> >Tried
> >
> >e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> >         Benutze EXT2FS Library version 1.41.12, 17-May-2010
> >
> >e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
> >         Benutze EXT2FS Library version 1.41.11, 14-Mar-2010
> >
> >Symptoms: fsck.ext4 -y -f takes nearly a month to fix the structures on
> >a P4@2,8Ghz, with very little access to the drive and 100% cpu use.
> >
> >output of fsck looks much like this:
> >
> >File ??? (Inode #123456, modify time Wed Jul 22 16:20:23 2009)
> >   block Nr. 6144 double block(s), used with four file(s):
> >     <filesystem metadata>
> >     ??? (Inode #123457, mod time Wed Jul 22 16:20:23 2009)
> >     ??? (Inode #123458, mod time Wed Jul 22 16:20:23 2009)
> >     ...
> >multiply claimed block map? Yes
> >
> >Is there an adhoc method of getting my data back faster?
> >
> >Is the slow performance with lots of hard links a known issue?

Yes, it is a known issue. 

You get to test my patch. :-)

I strongly suspect that (just like me) sometime in the past you've
seen e2fsck run out of memory and were advised to enable the
on-disk-databases.

	Roger. 



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