From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:36:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:36:51 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-062-041.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.62.41]:51218 "EHLO spot.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:36:50 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Feiler To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:38:09 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] In-Reply-To: <3CD6AE7A.FBEB5726@delusion.de> X-PGP-KeyID: 0x561D4FD2 X-PGP-Key: http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/pgpkey.shtml X-Species: Snow Leopard X-Operating-System: Linux i686 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200205141238.11104.kiza@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 06 May 2002 18:25, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > With Linux 2.4.18, I'm getting multiple of the following error: > > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory > #1966094: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3180611420, rec_len=53134, > name_len=138 Hi, I experienced the same problem with ext3 + 2.4.18 on a RAID-1. Out of nowhere the following error popped up in the syslog, no other surrounding error messages. The fs was mounted read-only automatically. After reboot and fsck there were /a lot/ of errors on the disk. Virtually all errors fsck knows I think. :) After fsck ran multiple times on the disk, lost+found was filled with stuff from all accross the disk, but other than that the fs seems to have survived it. May 14 01:24:41 kianga kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2142115: rec_len %% 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=4186379891, rec_len=16755, name_len=219 May 14 01:24:51 kianga last message repeated 2 times Regards, Oliver -- Oliver Feiler / http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/ (http://spot.dtip.de/) / ___________________________________________________________________________/