On 2013.02.27 at 10:34 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:47:27PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > Just booted todays Linux tree and got the following errors: > > > > ... > > Feb 27 13:33:31 x4 kernel: EXT4-fs (sda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) > > ... > > Feb 27 13:33:32 x4 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_find_dest_de:1657: inode #70647809: block 14164000: comm cupsd: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0(0), inode=2569822761, rec_len=3837, name_len=1 > > Feb 27 13:33:32 x4 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_find_dest_de:1657: inode #70911401: block 15213579: comm pdnsd: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0(0), inode=2000846358, rec_len=36782, name_len=120 > > Is this reproducible? Haven't checked yet, because I got scared. > Is there anything special about your system? How much memory do you > have? What kind of device is /dev/sda? What sort of workload did you > have running on your system before the failure? There is nothing special about my system. /dev/sda is a standard SATA drive: Model Family: Seagate Barracuda Green (AF) Device Model: ST1500DL003-9VT16L The error happens during boot. I use ECC memory. > Also, can you send us the output of "debugfs -R "stat <70647809>" > /dev/sda" so I can confirm that block 14164000 really is assigned to > inode 70647809? The one potential cause of this error I can think of > that might be related to recent changes in ext4 is if the extent > status tree had the wrong logical-to-physical mapping cached for the > directory inode. Inode: 70647809 Type: directory Mode: 0755 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: 4138624941 Version: 0x00000000:0000000d User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 4096 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 13 Blockcount: 8 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x50ab80de:2c77d5bc -- Tue Nov 20 14:08:46 2012 atime: 0x50aa5519:c556886c -- Mon Nov 19 16:49:45 2012 mtime: 0x50ab80de:2c77d5bc -- Tue Nov 20 14:08:46 2012 crtime: 0x50aa4a81:06bc6fd0 -- Mon Nov 19 16:04:33 2012 Size of extra inode fields: 28 EXTENTS: (0):282599456 -- Markus -- 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