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Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:20:47 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: "Udo A. Steinberg" <reality@delusion.de>
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Subject: Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18
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On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:25:30PM +0200, 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
> 
> Can someone decipher this?

Can you post the surrounding lines from dmesg?  Many times there is another
error that tells much more than the one you just posted...