Re: EXT4 corruption on Linus latest tree.

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 11:44:27 EST


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:919: inode #172235804: block 152052301: comm ls: bad entry in directory: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
>
> Yeah, looks similar. The missing files/dirs reappeared when I
> booted an older kernel, so it looks like the corruption doesn't
> hit the disk. Fsck (1.42.5) didn't find anything either.

I suspect I see the problem... can you send me the results of

debugfs -R "stat <172235804>" /dev/sdb1

to confirm?

Thanks,

- Ted
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