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 06:51:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:51:07 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:10485 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:51:06 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 04:49:22 -0600 To: Oliver Feiler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18 Message-ID: <20020514104922.GR12975@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: Oliver Feiler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3CD6AE7A.FBEB5726@delusion.de> <200205141238.11104.kiza@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On May 14, 2002 12:38 +0200, Oliver Feiler wrote: > 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. There have been several reports of strange ext3 errors when running on MD RAID. I don't know if anyone is looking into this yet. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/