On Sun, 2019-09-01 at 07:48 +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> 
> On 2019/9/1 上午7:39, Rann Bar-On wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 17:04 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 2:26 PM Rann Bar-On <r...@math.duke.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I just downgraded to kernel 4.19, and the supposed corruption
> > > > vanished.
> > > > This may be related to
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg91046.html
> > > > 
> > > > If I can provide information that would help fix this issue,
> > > > I'd be
> > > > glad to, but I cannot upgrade back to kernel 5.2, as I can't
> > > > risk
> > > > this
> > > > system.
> > > 
> > > 5.2 has more strict checks for corruption, exposing the rare case
> > > where metadata in a leaf is corrupt but the checksum was properly
> > > computed.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Although for your case, it's some older kernel doing something bad.
> 
> It's also reported once for the same problem, some older kernel
> doesn't
> set the mode member properly.

> > > > > Btrfs v3.17
> > > 
> > > This is old. I suggest finding a newer version of btrfs-progs,
> > > ideally
> > > latest stable version is 5.2.1. Definitely don't use --repair
> > > with
> > > this version. It's safe to use check --readonly (which is the
> > > default)
> > > with this version but probably not that helpful to devs.
> > > 
> > 
> > Not really sure why that said 3.17:
> > 
> > $ btrfs --version
> > btrfs-progs v5.2.1 
> > 
> > Anyway, running btrfs --repair on the file system didn't do
> > anything to
> > fix the above errors.
> 
> That's what we need to enhance next.
> 
> > I removed at least one of the corrupt files (the only one that was
> > mode
> > 0) using kernel 4.19.
> > 
> > Happy to help further if I can. What would you suggest as far as
> > fixing
> > this or reporting it usefully? If you believe 5.2 isn't causing the
> > corruption, but rather, just exposing it, I'm more than happy to
> > experiment with it.
> 
> Deleting the offending inodes would be enough to fix the alert.
> 

I deleted the file using the older kernel. I rebooted into the new
kernel, and things seem good for now.

Note: The newer one wouldn't let me access the file to delete it, nor
did any btrfs repair tool do anything at all. This is a big problem
IMO!

> Thanks,
> Qu
> 
> > Rann
> > 
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Rann Bar-On
Senior Lecturer
Dept of Mathematics
Duke University

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