Re: "reiserfsck --fix-fixable" says corrected; but doesn't

[Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@gmail.com>]

Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:

> Running with '--fix-fixable' finds the same errors, and says
> that it fixed them; but running again finds the same problem again.

Additional clues: the FS (being version 3.5) does not support files over 
2GB.

All 3 files with the problem are a result of a (recent) program
attempting to create a file that is larger than 2GB.

So, AFAICT:
- attempts to write large files on a 3.5 formatted FS (mounted without
  "-o conv") result in an error returned to a client program, and in
  filesystem corruption (actual size (as computed by reiserfsck) exceeds
  the limit) -- kernel BUG!
- attempts to fix such corruption with the latest reiserfsprogs
  don't actually fix it -- reiserfsprogs BUG!

I have removed the 3 offending files (by moving them into lost+found first),
and can do "ls" again :)

However this resulted in additional corruption which wasn't there before :(

  bad_leaf: block 18522164, items 12 and 13: The wrong order of items: 
[134215 570889 0x1 DRCT (2)], [134215 570890 0x1 IND (1)] ...
  Fatal corruptions were found, Semantic pass skipped
  1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree

I'll probably just back up the data and reformat the FS.

Cheers,