From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: EXT4-fs error: bad header in inode: unexpected eh_depth Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:14:05 -0500 Message-ID: <49B5869D.50503@redhat.com> References: <20081206002838.GA16688@nineveh.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58578 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752548AbZCIVOL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:14:11 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n29LE66U003202 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:14:06 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n29LE738011933 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:14:07 -0400 Received: from Liberator.lan (sebastian-int.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.221]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n29LE6Ye010617 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:14:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081206002838.GA16688@nineveh.local> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Joseph Fannin wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not sure I can reproduce this, but I've seen it twice in two days. > I'm hoping someone could tell me a bit about what this means: > > EXT4-fs error (device dm-1): ext4_ext_search_right: bad header in inode \ > #29753858: unexpected eh_depth - magic f30a, entries 2, max 340(0), depth 1(2) > > ... and then the journal aborts. I ran fsck on the fs after the error > both times. After the second one: Are you still seeing this? if so, and you're willing to test the patch at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12821#c8 it may resolve it. -Eric