This is part of the fallout of previous errors, so I don't know how it happened, but repeated e2fsck runs (git master, e2fsck 1.43.3.1 (22-Dec-2016)) aren't fixing it, which is at least an error in e2fsck. I think it's something to do with inline_data. The error is } else if (!ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) { if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) { if ((S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && !ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode)))) /* Validate extent which is part of inode */ ret = ext4_ext_check_inode(inode); } else if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && !ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode))) { /* Validate block references which are part of inode */ 4740--> ret = ext4_ind_check_inode(inode); } but I think the !ext4_has_inline_data() check is wrong. I.e. the inode *does* have inline data but the test is not detecting it, leading to -EFSCORRUPTED. debugfs: stat <1171779> Inode: 1171779 Type: directory Mode: 0775 Flags: 0x10000000 Generation: 2016668288 Version: 0x00000000:00000007 User: 1000 Group: 161 Project: 0 Size: 60 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 2 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x587eff35:6e19953c -- Wed Jan 18 00:37:57 2017 atime: 0x56d5943f:bb6e1344 -- Tue Mar 1 08:08:15 2016 mtime: 0x587eff35:6e19953c -- Wed Jan 18 00:37:57 2017 crtime: 0x56d388b6:533e9e7c -- Sun Feb 28 18:54:30 2016 Size of extra inode fields: 32 Inode checksum: 0x82a01dca Size of inline data: 60 debugfs: ls <1171779> 1171779 (12) . 1171778 (12) .. 1171954 (12) 0 1171955 (12) 1 1171956 (12) 2 1171957 (20) 3 debugfs: ex <1171779> <1171779>: does not uses extent block maps debugfs: blocks <1171779> (i.e. blank line) It has no blocks allocated, but contains data... must be inline, no? The EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA bit (bit 28) is set, so i_inline_off must be zero. How could that arise? Other info: debugfs: ea_list <1171779> debugfs: htree <1171779> htree: Not a hash-indexed directory debugfs: id <1171779> 0000 fd45 e803 3c00 0000 3f94 d556 35ff 7e58 .E..<...?..V5.~X 0020 35ff 7e58 0000 0000 a100 0200 0000 0000 5.~X............ 0040 0000 0010 0700 0000 42e1 1100 f2e1 1100 ........B....... 0060 0c00 0101 3000 0000 f3e1 1100 0c00 0101 ....0........... 0100 3100 0000 f4e1 1100 0c00 0101 3200 0000 1...........2... 0120 f5e1 1100 1400 0101 3300 0000 0000 0000 ........3....... 0140 0000 0000 80ea 3378 0000 0000 0000 0000 ......3x........ 0160 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ca1d 0000 ................ 0200 2000 a082 3c95 196e 3c95 196e 4413 6ebb ...<..n<..nD.n. 0220 b688 d356 7c9e 3e53 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...V|.>S........ 0240 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ * debugfs: dump <1171779> /tmp/empty $ xxd /tmp/empty 00000000: 42e1 1100 f2e1 1100 0c00 0101 3000 0000 B...........0... 00000010: f3e1 1100 0c00 0101 3100 0000 f4e1 1100 ........1....... 00000020: 0c00 0101 3200 0000 f5e1 1100 1400 0101 ....2........... 00000030: 3300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3........... That data is clearly visible in the i_block area of the inode (starting at offset 0050). -- 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