I have a hand-crafted bad filesystem image which has corruption:
[root@inode ~]# ls mnt/dir
file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
[root@inode ~]# ls mnt/dir/file4
ls: cannot access mnt/dir/file4: No such file or directory
[root@inode ~]# ls -l mnt/dir
ls: cannot access mnt/dir/file4: No such file or directory
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file3
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? file4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file5
e2fsck also knows it's corrupted:
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry 'file4' in /dir (2049) has deleted/unused inode 13. Clear? no
Entry 'file4' in /dir (2049) has an incorrect filetype (was 2, should be 1).
Fix? no
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Unconnected directory inode 2053 (/dir/???)
BUT there are no kernel messages logged anywhere because ext3_read_inode
silently makes a bad_inode in this case, so that stale NFS filehandles
aren't noisy. However, when we encounter such a problem after a by-name
lookup, I think a warning is appropriate, as it indicates filesystem
corruption.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]
---
Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ext3/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc3.orig/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,9 @@ static struct dentry *ext3_lookup(struct
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
+ ext3_warning(inode->i_sb, __FUNCTION__,
+ "bad inode %lu in dir #%lu",
+ inode->i_ino, dir->i_ino);
iput(inode);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);