Filesystem strangeness (ext3)

["Vladimír Třebický" <druid@mail.cz>]

        Hi,
yesterday I discovered a bunch of corrupted files. When I try to stat()
it, I get "Value too large for defined data type" or "Input/output
error" when it is a symlink to those files. These were normal files
(some readmes etc.) not accessed by any daemons or any applications at
all. Midnight marks them with "?" at beginning and shows something
about 3GB size. When I try to unlink() them, I get "Operation not
permitted" even though I'm root. Kernel log shows these two kinds of
errors:

Apr  5 11:33:47 master kernel: init_special_inode: bogus imode (113315)

and

Apr  5 11:33:49 master kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Apr  5 11:33:49 master kernel: 09:01: rw=0, want=587173332, limit=38539776

When I try to e2fsck -nf (I tried only ro test on mounted partition) I
get some of these:

Illegal block #10 (2236192626) in inode 523442.  IGNORED.

and:

Error while iterating over blocks in inode 523442: Illegal triply indirect block found
Segmentation fault

It confuses me a little bit and I don't know wheter I should try to do
rw e2fsck on unmounted partition, especially when e2fsck segfaults. My
system:

Linux master 2.4.22 #1 Sat Sep 20 14:26:11 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
        Using EXT2FS Library version 1.27, 8-Mar-2002
The device is /dev/md1:

[dev   9,   1] /dev/md1         889E3491.06B38BDD.B6F3803F.BCE40C0E online
[dev   3,   7] /dev/hda7        889E3491.06B38BDD.B6F3803F.BCE40C0E good
[dev   3,  71] /dev/hdb7        889E3491.06B38BDD.B6F3803F.BCE40C0E good

smartctl shows no errors on those physical disks.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Trebicky
trebicky@xhost.cz