From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:27:26 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:49654 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:27:25 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:25:44 -0600 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: ext2 errors w/2.5.x Message-ID: <20020618032544.GM22427@clusterfs.com> Mail-Followup-To: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <20020617.195611.61846581.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020617.195611.61846581.davem@redhat.com> 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 Jun 17, 2002 19:56 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I started seeing these occaisionally on my SMP boxes about a month or > two ago, is anyone else seeing something similar? > > EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)): ext2_find_entry: zero-length directory entry > > Upon reboot e2fsck is forced to run (since the partition is marked as > having errors by the kernel) and no problems are discovered. > > Any clues? This would appear to be from accessing a buffer (page) which has not yet been read from disk. Otherwise you would have an error from e2fsck also. Andrew has been mucking the most in this area... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/