On Mar 10, 2009 15:32 +1030, Kevin Shanahan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 23:35 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Kevin Shanahan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:57 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > >> Kevin Shanahan wrote: > > >>> kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (53253) If anyone has a chance, fixing this error message to be not-useless would be good... Including the device name and the inode number would help track down the source of the problem. > hermes:~# debugfs /dev/dm-0 > debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > debugfs: stat "local/apps/Gestalt.Net/SetupCD/program files/Business Objects/Common/3.5/bin/Cdo32sv.dll" > > Gives the following output: > > Inode: 867 Type: bad type Mode: 0404 Flags: 0x802a61af > Generation: 2483046020 Version: 0xb9286359:17a7fdfd > User: 1455931783 Group: -798021131 Size: -1808719531 > File ACL: 141934744 Directory ACL: 0 > Links: 15681 Blockcount: 171984001880781 > Fragment: Address: 956780679 Number: 0 Size: 0 > ctime: 0xdca60244:006c5b08 -- Wed Apr 23 01:54:36 2087 > atime: 0x5c9e956c:777587a4 -- Sat Mar 30 08:30:12 2019 > mtime: 0x2ce44e11:286138f8 -- Sat Nov 13 13:31:37 1993 > crtime: 0x737781cb:5661f351 -- Thu May 22 19:54:11 2031 > dtime: 0xf19c4882 -- Sat Jun 14 11:57:14 2098 > Size of extra inode fields: 3625 > BLOCKS: > > And when I exit the pager and return to the prompt I also see: > > invalid inode->i_extra_isize (3625) All garbage. Running e2fsck should fix this, though it won't explain why it got corrupted in the first place.. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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