Re: Filessystem corruptions while using rsnapshot

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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:40:41AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > I'm using rsnapshot (http://rsnapshot.org/) to automatically backup my
> > root filesystem (btrfs) to a second harddrive running ext4. Rsnapshot
> > uses rsync and a massive amount of hard links to keep multiple backups
> > instantly available. 
> > It seems that the sheer number of hard links overwhelms ext4 and results
> > in problems that require manual fsck.ext4 runs to bring the fs back to
> > normal.
> > 
> > For example this is output from fsck.ext4:
> > 
> > Problem in HTREE directory inode <some number> 
> > ... node <increasing number> has invalid depth (2)
> > ... node <increasing number> has bad mxhash
> > ... node <increasing number> not referenced
> > 
> > This output is repeated ad nauseam while <increasing number> increases
> > at each round.
> > 
> > The bug is very simple to reproduce here. Just run rsnapshot several
> > times per day and you will eventually hit the problem.
> 
> Could you provide a bzip2'd e2image -r of a corrupted filesystem for 
> analysis?

Eric, I'm sorry that I may have wasted your time with this.
It turned out that a bad RAM module was the most likely cause of these
corruptions. (I've found out only today, after I got btrfs csum errors
in my log, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/3613)

So please accept my apologies.
Thanks.
-- 
Markus
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