From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264297AbUGRRGP (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:06:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264305AbUGRRGL (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:06:11 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.245]:17955 "HELO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264297AbUGRRGG (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:06:06 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:06:06 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Filesystem corruption 1,800,000 inodes and counting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry to double post. The machine that is down processes most of my email. However, this account works. A machine froze after 30 days uptime. After reboot, it fell out of fsck with an unrecoverable error. I ran fsck -C -y /dev/md1. At 73% it starting reporting Unattached inode 250143 Connect to /lost+found? yes Inode 1815609 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix? yes It has gone from 250143 to 1815610 doing this over the last 36 hours. And so far as I know will do on doing this forever? Linux 2.4.25 untainted. ext2 filesystem (no journaling). Any advice on how I should proceed?