On 2012-10-12, at 11:05 PM, George Spelvin wrote: > I've been getting a bunch of these messages in the syslog. > I just ran e2fsck -D the other day as recommended, but now I'm getting > more. > > They don't look harmful, but they're annoying. > > Kernel 3.6.1, 64-bit > e2fsck 1.43-WIP (22-Sep-2012) > Using EXT2FS Library version 1.43-WIP, 22-Sep-2012 > > Kernel messages: > EXT4-fs error (device md5): ext4_dirent_csum_verify:262: inode #7282272: comm nfsd: metadata_csum set but no space in dir leaf for checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. > EXT4-fs error (device md5): ext4_find_entry:1217: inode #7282272: comm nfsd: checksumming directory block 0 This means there was an existing directory block that was completely full and could not have the checksum added. It isn't harmful, the chance of having silent corruption in this specific block is very small. The message itself should be quieted though, since there isn't anything to be helped by printing it continuously. I guess there is something missing in e2fsck that it doesn't add a checksum to this block, however. Cheers, Andreas -- 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