linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck not fixing deleted inode referenced errors?

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:34:00 +0200
From:	Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@...sync.net>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
CC:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck not fixing deleted inode referenced errors?

On 30.09.2014 22:36, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>
> sysfs will tell you:
>
> $ ls /sys/block/sd*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 30 13:31 /sys/block/sda ->
> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/
>
>                                     ^^^^
>

Nice, thanks. The error came from /dev/sdb definitely.

>
> Both drives, individually.
>
> md should be fine with that, since you're only running the read test.
>

You're right, of course, what was I thinking. :)

OK, 2 x badblocks already running. Will report tomorrow how it ended.

> It would be fun to be able to poke around with an 'e2image /dev/md2' file, but
> given the 1TB volume that might be unmanageable.
>

Yeah. Together with the fact that fs has millions of files + not enough 
space on other disk, I'll have to pass on that one.

>> But, I'm pretty sure that it will come out clean. The md check I did
>> last night would surely detected bad blocks if there were any. Or
>> not?
>
> Let's hope so, unless it's some weird transient error...
>

The worst kind. :( Dunno. I guess tomorrow I'll try unlink from debugfs. 
Then e2fsck. First, we'll see if there are any bad blocks around.

Regards,
-- 
Zlatko

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