On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Folks, give it a try - just keep decent backups. Similar code will
>
> It started to give me following errors:
>
> EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
> #28699: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=1024, inode=0,
> rec_len=0, name_len=0
Urgh. Sounds like a 1Kb-block filesystem with something that managed to
extend the directory without filling the new block. What's the size of
this directory?
> And sometimes a couple:
>
> EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
> #28699: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=1024, inode=0,
> rec_len=0, name_len=0
>
> There are a lot of instances of this but the dir # is the same.
> The directory in question seems to PostgreSQL data directory
> /var/lib/postgresql/data and it started when I tried to create a
> database into this. Otherwise the PostgreSQL works ok.
> No Oops yet.
>
> Kernel is UP 2.4.0-test9-pre7+ext2-patch-7. Nothing else.
>
> What other info is needed? And please also directions how to get it :)
debugfs and then stat <directory_name>
> Hmm, I am starting to think that maybe I _should_ make backups...
Ahem...
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