Re: Filessystem corruptions while using rsnapshot

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> I'm using rsnapshot (http://rsnapshot.org/) to automatically backup my
> root filesystem (btrfs) to a second harddrive running ext4. Rsnapshot
> uses rsync and a massive amount of hard links to keep multiple backups
> instantly available. 
> It seems that the sheer number of hard links overwhelms ext4 and results
> in problems that require manual fsck.ext4 runs to bring the fs back to
> normal.
> 
> For example this is output from fsck.ext4:
> 
> Problem in HTREE directory inode <some number> 
> ... node <increasing number> has invalid depth (2)
> ... node <increasing number> has bad mxhash
> ... node <increasing number> not referenced
> 
> This output is repeated ad nauseam while <increasing number> increases
> at each round.
> 
> The bug is very simple to reproduce here. Just run rsnapshot several
> times per day and you will eventually hit the problem.

Could you provide a bzip2'd e2image -r of a corrupted filesystem for 
analysis?

Thanks,
-Eric