Hi, This fs really doesn't like whatever I am doing with it. Here is another instance of corruption, again with the first symptom showing up as corrupted acls and xattrs as the backup script crawls over the directory structure: getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.DF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.SMK: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.DF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.IF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.SMK: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.SMK: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLSOUR.DF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.IF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.SMK: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.IF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.DF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.DF: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.SMK: Input/output error getfacl: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.SMK: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.IF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.IF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.SMK: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.SMK: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLSOUR.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.IF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.SMK: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.IF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.DF: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.SMK: Input/output error getfattr: apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.DF: Input/output error rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.SMK" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.IF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.SMK" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.SMK" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLSOUR.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.IF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.SMK" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.IF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLORIG.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLOUTC.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.SMK" failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: readlink "/srv/samba/local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROB.DF" failed: Input/output error (5) skipping non-regular file "apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLNATU.IF" Again, here is the little breadcrumb left at the end of dmesg: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (36545) attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=256153956122632, limit=2147483648 attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=256153956122632, limit=2147483648 And following the same formula as last time(s): hermes:~# debugfs /dev/dm-0 debugfs: stat "local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF" invalid inode->i_extra_isize (8224) Inode: 2542 Type: bad type Mode: 0043 Flags: 0x5849462f Generation: 538970637 Version: 0x66663030:535f4445 User: 538980401 Group: 538993001 Size: 996566576 File ACL: 538976288 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 8812 Blockcount: 35322822674750 Fragment: Address: 538976288 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x41462d54:65636166 -- Tue Sep 14 08:59:24 2004 atime: 0x4e4f4620:63206c61 -- Sat Aug 20 14:59:04 2011 mtime: 0x594c494d:6972413d -- Fri Jun 23 08:18:45 2017 crtime: 0x726f6c6f:3138233d -- Sun Nov 3 13:24:39 2030 dtime: 0x7241203a -- Sun Sep 29 09:35:14 2030 Size of extra inode fields: 8224 BLOCKS: debugfs: imap "local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF" Inode 2542 is part of block group 0 located at block 447, offset 0x0d00 hermes:~# dd if=/dev/dm-0 of=block-447.dump bs=4k skip=447 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.0121164 s, 338 kB/s Now, this is (possibly) interesting - that block contains a bunch of file data. Looks like a html email (I can tell it's email because of the FIXED_ prefix added to the tags by the mail sanitizer). If I can locate the source of that data, perhaps it will point to where the corruption is coming from? Any tips on scanning for the data? I'll start with simple find and grep and see how far I get. Regards, Kevin.