On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 02:44:24PM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> In the process of trying to debug issues I'm having on one of my
> systems with a new kernel version, I decided to do a dry run check on
> the root filesystem.  'btrfs check' returned a bunch of lines like:
> 
> root 257 inode XXXXXX errors 2000, link count wrong
>         unresolved ref dir YYYYY index 53 namelen 3 name LOG filetype 0 
> errors 3, no dir item, no dir index
> 
> I got about 20 messages like this with varying values for everything
> except the filetype and error counts.  Based on what I can tell, these
> look like orphaned inodex, but I'm not certain.
> Is it safe to tell BTRFS to try and fix these errors?

   Yes, those are errors I'd expect btrfs check --repair to handle
properly.

   Hugo.

> I'm running btrfs-progs 4.3.1 on kernel 4.3.3 (at least, that's the version 
> that
> works right now, I see the same errors on 4.4.1, but I have other issues
> there that are (hopefully) unrelated to BtRFS).

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