From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck not fixing deleted inode referenced errors?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:30:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140930183012.GA9942@birch.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542AEED4.5050303@bitsync.net>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 07:56:36PM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Hope this is the right list to ask this question.
>
> I have an ext4 filesystem that has a few errors like this:
>
> Sep 30 19:14:09 atlas kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md2):
> ext4_lookup:1448: inode #7913865: comm find: deleted inode
> referenced: 7912058
> Sep 30 19:14:09 atlas kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md2):
> ext4_lookup:1448: inode #7913865: comm find: deleted inode
> referenced: 7912055
>
> Yet, when I run e2fsck -fy on it, I have a clean run, no errors are
> found and/or fixed. Is this the expected behaviour? What am I
> supposed to do to get rid of errors like the above?
[I should hope not.]
> The filesystem is on a md mirror device, the kernel is 3.17.0-rc7,
> e2progs 1.42.12-1 (Debian sid). Could md device somehow interfere? I
> ran md check yesterday, but there were no errors.
>
> BTW, this all started when I got ata2.00: failed command: FLUSH
> CACHE EXT error yesterday morning. I did several runs of e2fsck
> before the filesystem came up clean, yet errors like the above are
> popping constantly.
Normally that kernel message only happens if a dir refers to an inode with
link_count and mode set to 0.
Is the disk attached to ata2.00 one of the RAID1 mirrors? What was the full
error message, and does smartctl -a report anything?
It would be interesting to see what "debugfs -R 'stat <7912058>' /dev/md2"
returns.
--D
>
> Thanks for any info. [and please Cc:, I'm not subscribed]
>
> --
> Zlatko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 17:56 e2fsck not fixing deleted inode referenced errors? Zlatko Calusic
2014-09-30 18:30 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2014-09-30 18:43 ` Zlatko Calusic
2014-09-30 19:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-09-30 20:10 ` Zlatko Calusic
2014-09-30 19:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-30 20:27 ` Zlatko Calusic
2014-09-30 20:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-09-30 21:34 ` Zlatko Calusic
2014-10-01 6:44 ` Zlatko Calusic
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