Hello Andreas, Thanks for letting me know this. Hello George, I have tried to create a ext4 file system with inline_data feature, and try to create a directory hierarchy like you described in the mail. But unfortunately I couldn't reproduce your issue. That would be great if you could provide more details to me, such as the output of the following command. $ debugfs ${DEV} -R 'stats' >From this command I can know which features are enabled in your ext4 file system and that would help me to reproduce the problem. Further, could you please tell me your kernel version? On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 04:00:02PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Add the original inline data author Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > On May 1, 2017, at 11:40 AM, George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [255031.626936] EXT4-fs warning (device md3): ext4_dirent_csum_verify:352: inode #1461410: comm find: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. > > [255031.626940] EXT4-fs error (device md3): ext4_readdir:198: inode #1461410: comm find: path $PATH1: directory fails checksum at offset 0 > > [255035.720542] EXT4-fs warning (device md3): ext4_dirent_csum_verify:352: inode #1461314: comm find: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. > > [255035.720547] EXT4-fs error (device md3): ext4_readdir:198: inode #1461314: comm find: path $PATH2: directory fails checksum at offset 0 It seems that the space is full in inline data and the kernel could not expand it to a new block. From the following message I guess during this process kernel tries to allocate a new block for this directory and then an error is encountered that causes flags 0x10000000 could not have a chance to be cleared. So this inode has flag 0x10000000 and blockcount is 8. > > > > > > The inline data consists of two parts: 60 bytes in the block pointers which > > hold the first four entries, and 72 bytes in an ea, which holds the fifth and > > last entry. > > > > debugfs on the directories reveals the following: > > Inode: 1461410 Type: directory Mode: 0755 Flags: 0x10000000 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It means that this directory contains inline data > > Generation: 927521379 Version: 0x00000000:00000007 > > User: 1000 Group: 11 Project: 0 Size: 132 > > File ACL: 1496481792 Directory ACL: 0 > > Links: 3 Blockcount: 8 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It seems that this directory is currupted because a directory with inline data should be 0. That is why e2fsck wants to fix this issue in first round. I will take a closer look at this problem later, and thanks for reporting this. Regards, - Zheng > > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > > ctime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > atime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > mtime: 0x55016b84:e7729ec8 -- Thu Mar 12 06:33:40 2015 > > crtime: 0x56c1c093:0d01b4b4 -- Mon Feb 15 07:12:03 2016 > > Size of extra inode fields: 32 > > Extended attributes: > > system.data (72) > > Inode checksum: 0x456bd90c > > Size of inline data: 132 > > > > Inode: 1461314 Type: directory Mode: 0755 Flags: 0x10000000 > > Generation: 927521364 Version: 0x00000000:00000004 > > User: 1000 Group: 11 Project: 0 Size: 132 > > File ACL: 1496383488 Directory ACL: 0 > > Links: 3 Blockcount: 8 > > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > > ctime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > atime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > mtime: 0x55016b84:1670325c -- Thu Mar 12 06:33:40 2015 > > crtime: 0x56c1c093:01161e74 -- Mon Feb 15 07:12:03 2016 > > Size of extra inode fields: 32 > > Extended attributes: > > system.data (72) > > Inode checksum: 0x008d7abf > > Size of inline data: 132 > > > > > > If I run e2fsck on that stat, it complains about two things: > > > > Inode 1461314, i_blocks is 8, should be 0. Fix<y>? yes > > Inode 1461410, i_blocks is 8, should be 0. Fix<y>? yes > > i_file_acl for inode 1461314 ($PATH2) is 1496383488, should be zero. > > Clear<y>? yes > > i_file_acl for inode 1461410 ($PATH1) is 1496481792, should be zero. > > Clear<y>? yes > > > > I don't really understand how those two errors were created in the > > first place. > > > > However, after saying yes to those, the system.data ea is missing and the > > final entries in each directory get dropped, leading to being dumped > > in loat+found. > > > > Here's the state after the first e2fsck run completes: > > > > Inode: 1461410 Type: directory Mode: 0755 Flags: 0x10000000 > > Generation: 927521379 Version: 0x00000000:00000007 > > User: 1000 Group: 11 Project: 0 Size: 132 > > File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 > > Links: 3 Blockcount: 0 > > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > > ctime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > atime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > mtime: 0x55016b84:e7729ec8 -- Thu Mar 12 06:33:40 2015 > > crtime: 0x56c1c093:0d01b4b4 -- Mon Feb 15 07:12:03 2016 > > Size of extra inode fields: 32 > > Inode checksum: 0xcd34b98c > > Size of inline data: 60 > > > > Inode: 1461314 Type: directory Mode: 0755 Flags: 0x10000000 > > Generation: 927521364 Version: 0x00000000:00000004 > > User: 1000 Group: 11 Project: 0 Size: 132 > > File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 > > Links: 3 Blockcount: 0 > > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > > ctime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > atime: 0x5902fa22:07728174 -- Fri Apr 28 04:15:30 2017 > > mtime: 0x55016b84:1670325c -- Thu Mar 12 06:33:40 2015 > > crtime: 0x56c1c093:01161e74 -- Mon Feb 15 07:12:03 2016 > > Size of extra inode fields: 32 > > Inode checksum: 0x042ed119 > > Size of inline data: 60 > > > > > > This then leads to a second run complaining about > > > > Inode 1461314 has INLINE_DATA_FL flag but extended attribute not found. Truncate<y>? > > > > If I instead fix it by "ea_set -f /dev/null <1461314> system.data", I get the > > directory back in a relatively unbroken state. But why is system.data > > being deleted in the first place? > > > Cheers, Andreas > > > > >