Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:09:08 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Can anyone tell me the meaning of this error and if I should panic? |
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:12:31 -0600 (CST) From: Thomas Schenk <tschenk@dejanews.com>
I have been receiving the following error message lately on a few of my Linux SMP systems and am curious as to what it means and whether I should be worried about it.
Mar 17 14:06:35 dc7 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:05): ext2_find_entry: directory #335873 contains a hole at offset 28672
I did a search on Deja News and found that the source line that generates this error has been #if 0'd out in a patch against 2.1 from Theodore Ts'o to Linus.
It's relatively harmless; e2fsck will fix it, and it doesn't harm your data. However, it's a condition which should never happen under normal operations using the current 2.0 and 2.1 kernels, so the fact that you're seeing it on your SMP systems is troubling.
Would you be willing to run debugfs on that filesystem and use the command "stat <335873>" and tell me what debugfs prints? That would be most useful. Thanks!!
The reason why that line has been #if 0'd out of the patch is because it's a relatively harmless case, and because in the future, it would be helpful to allow this case when removing pages from B-tree based directories.
- Ted
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