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From: chrisl@gnuchina.org
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Ryan Cumming <ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:45:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020928194513.GA1254@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020928172748.GF22795@clusterfs.com>

That is exactly the case. Now I am looking what where is those entry
come from. Remove entry should merge with the previous one.

Add a check in dx_make_map will help.


Chris

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 11:27:49AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2002  10:13 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > The nature of the corruption is that a directory entry of size 8
> > (which is enough room for a zero-length name) is left in the
> > directory.  This is harmless, but it should never happen normally, and
> > so the ext3 sanity-checking code flags it as an error.  With this
> > patch, e2fsck is much smarter about salvaging corrupt directories, and
> > so it can do so without causing any directory entries to be lost.
> > (This corrupted, too-small directory entry appears at the beginning of
> > the directory block, which is another reason why I strongly suspect
> > the dx_split code.)
> 
> One idea I just had but don't have time to investigate (babysitting
> both kids today) is if the do_split() code is creating a hash entry
> for unused dir entries (i.e. inode == 0 or name_len == 0).  If that
> is the case, then it could explain the presence of this short entry.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-25 20:03 [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support tytso
2002-09-25 20:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-25 20:41 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-25 21:08   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-25 21:34   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-25 23:29   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 23:45     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26  3:27       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  5:23         ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26  5:57           ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  6:22             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 14:05               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  6:25             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 11:25               ` Daniel Egger
2002-09-26  7:41             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 13:23               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 15:42               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 19:08                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 19:51                   ` Horst von Brand
2002-09-26 19:59                     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 22:04                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 22:53                     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 23:57                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-27  1:00                         ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-27  3:24                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-27  4:12                         ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-27  7:55                           ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28  1:20                           ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28  1:46                             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28 14:13                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-28 14:18                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-28 22:35                                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28 17:27                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-09-28 18:43                                 ` chrisl
2002-09-28 19:45                                 ` chrisl [this message]
2002-09-28 22:30                               ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-29  7:03                               ` [PATCH] fix htree dir corrupt after fsck -fD chrisl
2002-09-29  8:16                                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-29  8:36                                   ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-30  2:46                                   ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-29 14:13                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 23:31 ` [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support Daniel Egger
2002-09-26  0:32   ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-26  0:50 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-09-26  3:28   ` Theodore Ts'o

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