On Feb 26, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:

Maybe this is deletion related since I was creating and destroying a
bunch of file with rsync. I don't know. I'm redoing the rsync with
checksums to see if the data is still in tact. Seems like some bits of
this got corrupted, but I can't tell if it's disk or file system
related.

I'd run e2fsck before you do anything else.   Some of the error
messages listed below, especially the ones about bad link
counts on empty directories, smells very much like the inode
table got corrupted.

-- Ted

bill
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Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [    2.819633]  sdb1
Feb 22 19:27:40 finfin kernel: [  263.857108]  sdb: sdb1
Feb 22 20:03:18 finfin kernel: [ 2402.182269] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Feb 25 03:49:40 finfin kernel: [203184.800029] EXT4-fs (sdb1):
warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 25 03:49:41 finfin kernel: [203184.980730] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Feb 25 04:41:26 finfin kernel: [206290.181230] JBD: Spotted dirty
metadata buffer (dev = sdb1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of
filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 25 05:01:39 finfin kernel: [    2.405998]  sdb: sdb1
Feb 25 05:02:07 finfin kernel: [   82.487625] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning:
mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 25 05:02:07 finfin kernel: [   82.657297] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Feb 25 05:09:40 finfin kernel: [    2.408385]  sdb: sdb1
Feb 25 05:14:17 finfin kernel: [    2.438605]  sdb: sdb1
Feb 25 05:16:21 finfin kernel: [  174.548463] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning:
mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
Feb 25 05:16:21 finfin kernel: [  174.728174] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209497] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242283) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209594] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242282) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209668] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242281) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209739] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242280) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209745] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (8)
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209818] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242279) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209824] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (5)
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209892] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242278) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209898] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (3)
Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.226488] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (125)
Feb 25 15:18:45 finfin kernel: [36317.996660] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40247537) - no data block
Feb 25 15:18:45 finfin kernel: [36317.996671] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (24906)
Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.180386] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40239122) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.232941] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (3)
Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.343549] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (5)
Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.397308] EXT4-fs warning (device
sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40239106) - no `.' or `..'
Feb 25 18:13:27 finfin kernel: [46799.800244] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Feb 25 21:51:47 finfin kernel: [59900.021575] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
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