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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:22:36 -0300
From: John R Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>
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Subject: Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666
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In-Reply-To: <200103132147.f2DLlGb05518@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:47:16PM -0700
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> ls -i (path)/imlib1; ls -i (path)/fd         # record inode numbers
> debugfs /dev/hdX
> stat <inode_number>                          # '<' and '>' are required

burocracia:~# ls -i /usr/share/doc/|grep \ imlib1$
 404176 imlib1
burocracia:~# ls -i /dev/|grep fd$
 404192 fd
burocracia:~# debugfs /dev/hda2
debugfs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
debugfs:  stat <404176>
Inode: 404176   Type: symlink    Mode:  0777   Flags: 0x0   Generation: 2457884131
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 281474976710666
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1   Blockcount: 0
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
ctime: 0x3a735ed8 -- Sat Jan 27 20:50:48 2001
atime: 0x3aaef4cd -- Wed Mar 14 01:34:21 2001
mtime: 0x3a735ed8 -- Sat Jan 27 20:50:48 2001
Fast_link_dest: imlib-base
debugfs:  stat <404192>
Inode: 404192   Type: symlink    Mode:  0777   Flags: 0x0   Generation: 1796859698
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 281474976710669
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1   Blockcount: 0
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
ctime: 0x3a7308d5 -- Sat Jan 27 14:43:49 2001
atime: 0x3aaef4cd -- Wed Mar 14 01:34:21 2001
mtime: 0x3a7308d5 -- Sat Jan 27 14:43:49 2001
Fast_link_dest: /proc/self/fd

> send output.  This should tell us if the badness is stored on disk or in
> memory.  Of course e2fsck would help as well.  Were these newly created
> inodes, or existing ones?  If you shutdown and restart, does it go away?
> Anything in syslog about ext2 warnings or errors?

this is after an e2fsck, after a reboot, after restart. Nothing
in the logs. The inodes are as old as the system, which isn't all
that old (circa the first release with reiserfs).

I did a find on the whole filesystem and I seem to have stumbled
on the only two files with this problem by accident.

-- 
John Lenton (john@grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
Acepto que sientas odio, pero no que act?es con ?l...
acepto que ames, aplaudo que act?es siempre con ?l.
   -- Montesino.
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