linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

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Message-Id: <1179497298.4305.9.camel@garfield.linsyssoft.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 19:38:18 +0530
From:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...syssoft.com>
To:	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...osome.natur.cuni.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:51 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:17:06PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:06 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   I just tried the 2.6.22-r1 candidate to test whether some bug I have 
> > > hit in the past still exists. I did use 2.6.20.6 so far. So, I have 
> > > cleanly rebooted to use the new kernel, after the machine came up I 
> > > tried to mess with the bug, and had to reboot again to play with kernel 
> > > commandline parameters. Unfortunately, on the next reboot fsck was 
> > > schedules on my filesystem after 38 clean mounts. :( And the problem 
> > > started. The fsck found some unused inodes, but probably did not know 
> > > where do they belong to, but it deleted them automagically. Finally, the 
> > > fsck died because it cannot fine some '..' entry.
> > > 
> > > /dev/hda3: Entry '..' in .../??? (5701636) has deleted/unused inode
> > > 5570561. CLEARED.
> > > Unconnected directory inode 5570567 (...)
> > > 
> > > /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> > >                   (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> > > 
> > 
> > This means that e2fsck has reached a point where it needs user
> > intervention. So you should not run e2fsck with -p, -a or -y options.
> > Look up the e2fsck man page for more on this.
> 
> Yeah, stupid init.d script in Gentoo. I will report at Gentoo as well but
> how can I revert the changes? Can you say which directories were affected?

No there is nothing wrong with your script, most problems get solved by
-a or -p and hence your init.d script is correct in using these options.

I don't understand what you mean by reverting your changes. 

An unconnected directory inode means that this directory (inode 5570567)
does not have a valid ".." entry (which is the backpointer to its
parent). So this directory will be moved to lost+found.

Thanks,
Kalpak.

> Thanks,
> Martin

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