I am experiencing problems with an ext4 file system.
At first, the drive seemed to work fine. I was primarily copying things
to the drive migrating data from another server. After many GBs of data,
that seemingly successfully were done being transferred, I started seeing
ext4 errors in /var/log/messages. I then unmounted the drive and ran fsck
on it (which took multiple hours to run). I then ls'ed around and one of
the areas caused the system to again throw ext4 errors.
I did run memtest through one complete pass and it found no problems.
I then went looking for help on the fedora forum and it was suggested that
I increase my journal size. So I recreated the ext4 partition (with
larger journal) and started the migration process again. After several
days of copying, the errors started again.
Here are some of the errors from /var/log/messages:
Feb 2 04:48:30 mdct-00fs kernel: [672021.519914] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 22307: 460 blocks in bitmap,
0 in gd
Feb 2 04:48:30 mdct-00fs kernel: [672021.520429] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 22308: 1339 blocks in
bitmap, 0 in gd
Feb 2 04:48:30 mdct-00fs kernel: [672021.520927] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 22309: 3204 blocks in
bitmap, 0 in gd
Feb 2 04:48:30 mdct-00fs kernel: [672021.521409] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 22310: 2117 blocks in
bitmap, 0 in gd
Feb 4 05:08:29 mdct-00fs kernel: [845547.724807] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_dx_find_entry: inode #311951364: (comm scp) bad entry in
directory: directory entry across blocks -
block=1257308156offset=0(9166848), inode=3143403788, rec_len=80864,
name_len=168
Feb 4 05:08:29 mdct-00fs kernel: [845547.733034] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_add_entry: inode #311951364: (comm scp) bad entry in
directory: directory entry across blocks - block=1257308156offset=0(0),
inode=3143403788, rec_len=80864, name_len=168
Feb 4 05:19:41 mdct-00fs kernel: [846217.922351] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_dx_find_entry: inode #311951364: (comm scp) bad entry in
directory: directory entry across blocks -
block=1257308156offset=0(9166848), inode=3143403788, rec_len=80864,
name_len=168
Feb 4 05:19:41 mdct-00fs kernel: [846217.928922] EXT4-fs error (device
dm-2): ext4_add_entry: inode #311951364: (comm scp) bad entry in
directory: directory entry across blocks - block=1257308156offset=0(0),
inode=3143403788, rec_len=80864, name_len=168
Here is my setup:
Promise Vtrak RAID array with 12 drives in a RAID 6 configuration
(over 5TB).
The promise array is connected to my server using a external SAS
connection.
OS: Fedora 14
One logical volume on the promise.
One logical volume at the external SAS level.
One logical volume at the OS level.
So from my OS, I see one logical volume depicting one big drive.
I then setup the ext4 system using the following command:
'mkfs.ext4 -v -m 1 -J size=1024 -E stride=16,stripe-width=160
/dev/vg_storage/lv_storage'
Any thoughts/tips on how to track down the problem?
My thought now is to try using ext3; however, my fear is that I will just
run into the problem with it. Is ext4 production ready?
Thoughts?
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