linux-kernel - Re: EXT4 corruption on Linus latest tree.

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Message-ID: <20130227164417.GF5609@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44:17 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4 corruption on Linus latest tree.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:919: inode #172235804: block 152052301: comm ls: bad entry in directory: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
> 
> Yeah, looks similar.  The missing files/dirs reappeared when I
> booted an older kernel, so it looks like the corruption doesn't
> hit the disk.  Fsck (1.42.5) didn't find anything either.

I suspect I see the problem...   can you send me the results of 

  debugfs -R "stat <172235804>" /dev/sdb1

to confirm?

Thanks,

						- Ted
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