Re: About direntries pointing to nowhere on reiserfs problem in 2.4

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:15:41PM -0500, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> OK, I did the following:
> 	patch kernel
> 	install patched kernel
> 	umount filesystem
> 	reiserfsck 3.6.5-pre1 --fix-fixable the filesystem
> 	forgot to note the last few things reiserfsck said

Ideally, resiserfsck should have told you wwhenever there were any
unfixed corruptions left.

> 	reboot machine
> 	verify that patched kernel is running
> 	wait a few days
> 	read "unlink: Permission denied" in logs
> I'm wondering if I'm still seeing the bug, or just the lingering
> after-effects of the bug that might still be hiding in the filesystem.

Hard to tell. But it well might be a hiding bugs.
--fix-fixable does not correct link counts, so if you have
file with nlinks=3 and 4 hardlinks to it, you are in trouble after
three of the hardlinks are removed.

> Is fix-fixable able to correct link counts?  If not, presumably I need

No. It may only delete entries pointing to nowhere, I think.

> to do a full rebuild-tree in order to correct any incorrect link counts
> that may still be present on the filesystem?

Probably yes.

Bye,
    Oleg