linux-ext4 - Re: Filesystem state: clean with errors

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:39:12 -0400
From:	Autif Khan <autif.mlist@...il.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem state: clean with errors - what errors?

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 6/3/13 3:07 PM, Autif Khan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/3/13 2:29 PM, Autif Khan wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 6/3/13 1:45 PM, Autif Khan wrote:
>>>>>> Executing dumpe2fs -h on one of the partitions says
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index
>>>>>> filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg
>>>>>> dir_nlink extra_isize
>>>>>> Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash
>>>>>> Default mount options:    user_xattr acl
>>>>>> Filesystem state:         clean with errors
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I find out what the errors are - the details of the errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> "clean" means the log has been replayed (log is not dirty)
>>>>> "with errors" means that it encountered concistency errors at runtime
>>>>>
>>>>> run e2fsck -f on it to see what it finds (or e2fsck -fn if you want a no-op
>>>>> dry run)
>>>>
>>>> --- spin ---
>>>>
>>>> ubuntu@...0013950af6fb:~$ sudo fsck -V -n -f /dev/sda5
>>>> fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
>>>> [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /koko] fsck.ext4 -n -f /dev/sda5
>>>> e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
>>>> Warning!  /dev/sda5 is mounted.
>>>
>>> Surprising that it didn't find errors since you ran it on a mounted fs!
>>>
>>> That's also an older e2fsck, so I suppose it's possible that it missed
>>> something.
>>>
>>>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
>>>> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
>>>> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
>>>> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
>>>> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
>>>> /dev/sda5: 24770/262144 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 328031/1048576 blocks
>>>> ubuntu@...0013950af6fb:~$
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure I see any errors. Is there an error here?
>>>
>>> No, that didn't report any errors.
>>>
>>> If you unmount it and do it w/o -n, it should clear the error state.
>>> Perhaps it encountered an error for a file that got subsequently deleted,
>>> or something - not sure.
>>>
>>
>> That is true - we are able to fix this - almost trivially - the
>> problem is that we are causing this frequently (sometimes always) with
>> inexpensive SSDs. I am sure you have seen my other email:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=137028288823079&w=2
>>
>> I assume that there is no other tool that I can use - (short of a hex
>> dump of the 4.0G partition using dd) - to further debug this. Is
>> there?
>
> "with errors" is printed when the fs state has EXT2_ERROR_FS set.
>
> Looking at the system logs would be a start - when the filesystem was set
> into error state, the kernel should have logged that fact, along with
> why it did so... you could go from there.
>
> Also, kernels since 2.6.36 save more info:
>

We are at 3.2.33, so we should be good.

However, I do not see "with errors" in either dmesg or /var/log/syslog.

Is there a kernel config that needs to be set to enable EXT2/3/4 logging?
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