ext3 file system went read-only in 2.6.18.2 (plus hacks)

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

First, this kernel is tainted by one of my proprietary patches
and also has my other non-proprietary patches applied, so please
ignore as you wish.  My patches do not (purposefully) affect the file-system.

The system is a via/c3 system running a fairly stripped down FC5
installation on a 1GB CF disk.  We've been using this platform
for over a year and this is the first file system error we've
seen.  It could easily be that the CF is funky, but I thought
I'd post the message in case it proves to be something else.


eth1: Promiscuous mode enabled.
eth1: Promiscuous mode enabled.
EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_find_entry: bad entry in directory #99247: rec_len % 4 1
Aborting journal on device hda1.
EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_find_entry: bad entry in directory #99254: rec_len % 4 1
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_find_entry: bad entry in directory #99048: rec_len % 4 1
EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_find_entry: bad entry in directory #99041: directory en1
   syslogd: /var/log/messages: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/secure: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/maillog: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/cron: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/spooler: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/boot.log: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/messages: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/secure: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/maillog: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/cron: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/spooler: Read-only file system
   syslogd: /var/log/boot.log: Read-only file system
pktgen: pktgen_mark_device marking eth0#5 for removal
pktgen: pktgen_mark_device marking eth0#0 for removal
.....

After restarting and a manual fsck, the system appears to
be back to normal.

Thanks,
Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com