To reduce Jans load I send it here for advice: Today I got these warnings for the backup partition: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.5 (abuild@build23) (gcc version 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Mon Jan 19 09:08:56 UTC 2015 [102565.308869] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [102565.315974] EXT3-fs (dm-5): using internal journal [102565.315980] EXT3-fs (dm-5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode [104406.015708] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! [104406.239904] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! [104406.254162] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! [104406.270793] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! [104406.287443] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! According to google this indicates that the filesystem has more than 32k subdirectories. According to wikipedia this limit can be avoided by enabling the dir_index feature. According to dumpe2fs the feature is enabled already. Does the warning above mean something else? Jan suggested to create a debug image with "e2image -r /dev/dm-5 - | xz > ext3-image.e2i.xz", but this creates more than 250G of private data. I wonder if the math within the kernel is done correctly. If so I will move the data to another drive and reformat the thing with another filesystem. If however the math is wrong somewhere, I'm willing to keep it for a while until the issue is understood. # dumpe2fs -h /dev/dm-5 dumpe2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem volume name: BACKUP_OLH_500G Last mounted on: /run/media/olaf/BACKUP_OLH_500G Filesystem UUID: f0d41610-a993-4b77-8845-f0f07e37f61d Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 26214400 Block count: 419430400 Reserved block count: 419430 Free blocks: 75040285 Free inodes: 24328812 First block: 1 Block size: 1024 Fragment size: 1024 Reserved GDT blocks: 256 Blocks per group: 8192 Fragments per group: 8192 Inodes per group: 512 Inode blocks per group: 128 Filesystem created: Tue Feb 12 18:24:13 2013 Last mount time: Thu Jan 29 09:15:28 2015 Last write time: Thu Jan 29 09:15:28 2015 Mount count: 161 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Mon May 26 10:09:36 2014 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 299 MB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 55aeb7a2-43ca-4104-ad21-56d7a523dc8f Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke Journal size: 32M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x000a2725 Journal start: 17366 The backup is done with rsnapshot, which uses hardlinks and rsync to create a new subdir with just the changed files. # for t in d f l ; do echo "type $t: `find /media/BACKUP_OLH_500G/ -xdev -type $t | wc -l`" ; done type d: 1051396 type f: 20824894 type l: 6876 With the hack below I got this output: [14161.626156] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500418AS CC45 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [14161.626671] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) [14161.626762] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [14161.626769] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [14161.626810] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [14161.628058] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [14161.651340] sdb: sdb1 [14161.651978] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [14176.784403] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [14176.790307] EXT3-fs (dm-5): using internal journal [14176.790316] EXT3-fs (dm-5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode [14596.410693] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! /hourly.0 localhost/olh/maildir/olh-maildir Maildir/old/xen-devel.old/cur 1422000479.29469_1.probook.fritz.box:2,S [15335.342389] EXT3-fs (dm-5): warning: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! /hourly.0 localhost/olh/maildir/olh-maildir Maildir/old/xen-devel.old/cur 1422000479.29469_1.probook.fritz.box:2,S diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c index f197736..5022eda 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -1525,11 +1525,20 @@ static int ext3_dx_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry, struct dx_entry *entries2; struct dx_node *node2; struct buffer_head *bh2; + struct dentry *parents = dentry->d_parent; + struct dentry *parents2; + unsigned int i = 4; if (levels && (dx_get_count(frames->entries) == dx_get_limit(frames->entries))) { + while (parents && i > 0 && parents->d_parent) + i--, parents = parents->d_parent; + parents2 = parents; + i = 4; + while (parents2 && i > 0 && parents2->d_parent) + i--, parents2 = parents2->d_parent; ext3_warning(sb, __func__, - "Directory index full!"); + "Directory index full! %pd4 %pd4 %pd4 %pd", parents2, parents, dentry->d_parent, dentry); err = -ENOSPC; goto cleanup; } This does not dump the inode yet. I suspect it will point to other hardlinks of the dentry above. Thanks for reading, Olaf -- 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