Re: Lost files + indentical Foldernames on XFS Partition

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Steffen Knauf wrote:
>> Steffen Knauf wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> today i have a strange behavior. I have a a directory which contains 
>>> lots of indentical Folders with the same Name and Inode.
>>>     
>> What kernel? 
> 
> Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 
> 20070115 (SUSE Linux))

Would probably be good to try an upstream kernel to see if it persists,
if you can; otherwise for an older distro kernel like this, a report to
SuSE would be in order.

>> Can you cut and paste what you see? 
> 
> Really strange is that if execute only a 'ls' command the files are 
> shown twice:
> 
> combine_sbn.0051.tga
> combine_sbn.0051.tga
> 
> But if i execute 'ls -il' the output looks like this:
> 
> combine_sbn.0051.tga: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> combine_sbn.0057.tga: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> combine_sbn.0058.tga: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

so the filename is in the directory but doesn't point to a valid file I
guess.

> Here a directory example:
> 
> 2147642598 drwxrwxrwx 2 500 500 4096 2009-03-17 12:33 
> S14-01_Fische_beauty_Main
> 2147642598 drwxrwxrwx 2 500 500 4096 2009-03-17 12:33 
> S14-01_Fische_beauty_Main
> 
>>> I don't create Hardlinks or something else. On the other side some files 
>>> are suddenly vanished. A "ls -al" result in the following error: 
>>> "Access  to bla not possible: File or Directory not found."
>>> I don't find some Errormessages in the logfile. I don't know whether a 
>>> xfs_check make sense.
>>>     
>> xfs_repair -n will check the filesystem without actually modifying anything.
>>   
> I'll try it....

You could also create an xfs_metadump to save for later investigation.

-Eric

>> -Eric
>>   
> Steffen

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