Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263746AbTE3PCh (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 11:02:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263743AbTE3PCh (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 11:02:37 -0400 Received: from gw.enyo.de ([212.9.189.178]:19724 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263737AbTE3PCg (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 11:02:36 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.5.69] ext3 error: rec_len %% 4 != 0 References: <8765nva43w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <20030528012512.5d631827.akpm@digeo.com> From: Florian Weimer Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:15:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87znl45utw.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> >> Sometimes, our 2.5 test machine (actually, it's a production machine, >> please don't ask why we can't use 2.4 *sigh*) stops with an ext3 error >> message. We have now activated proper logging, and that's what we >> got: >> >> May 28 03:23:00 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #16056745: rec_len %% 4 != 0 - offset=52, inode=431743, rec_len=37017, name_len=41 Another error message is the following one: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #12812298: directory entry across blocks - offset=0, inode=1308, rec_len=38720, name_len=225 Hmm. > Falling back to ext2 for a while would be interesting. I see the following messages with dmesg, but they appear to be non-critical: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (67) init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (177766) init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (5) init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (65) init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (53664) init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (5) Are they related? They didn't appear with ext3. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/