Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 14:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> Problem Description: >>> Inode size: 256 > > This is a bit interesting, since it isn't very common to use large inodes. > I suspect this relates to the problem. I think it is somewhat common on samba servers, though. And it's the new default in the latest e2fsprogs... maybe something will shake out in the F9 development cycle. >>> These are production Samba servers making fairly extensive use of file and >>> directory ACLs. Thus far, I've only noticed the corruptions when it came time >>> to upgrade to a new kernel and reboot (and the boot scripts then run fsck). >>> Note that I've never noticed any issues at runtime because of this - only when >>> I later realised that ACLs had been removed from random files and/or >>> directories. >>> >>> I think I will implement some scripts to unmount and run fsck nightly from >>> cron, so I can at least detect the corruption a little earlier. If there is >>> some more helpful debugging output I can provide, please let me know. > > There is just such a script in the thread "forced fsck (again?)". Since you > are using LVs for the filesystem. Which is on the ext3-users list btw... > If you are able to reproduce this, could you please dump the inode and EA > block before fixing the problem. Do you need instructions on doing that? -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
