Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757499AbXIRMae (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:30:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756211AbXIRMa1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:30:27 -0400 Received: from herkules.vianova.fi ([194.100.28.129]:49834 "HELO mail.vianova.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755933AbXIRMa0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:30:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:30:26 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:23:14 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.35 SMP: ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323888: rec_len is smaller than minimal Message-ID: <20070918122314.GL29062@vianova.fi> Reply-To: v@iki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux herkules.vianova.fi 2.4.35 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1495 Lines: 46 Hello, I got a bunch of these into dmesg: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323880: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323888: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323882: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 The kernel is 2.4.35 SMP, dual-processor. The scsi driver is Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.16. The device is /dev/sda2, root fs. One line per each directory had dropped into dmesg each night (I think during updatedb) before I noticed. The directories in question have not been written to for ages: >debugfs /dev/sda2 debugfs: ncheck 323888 Inode Pathname 323888 /usr/share/doc/logcheck-1.1.1 debugfs: ncheck 323882 Inode Pathname 323882 /usr/share/doc/dev86-0.15.5 debugfs: ncheck 323880 Inode Pathname 323880 /usr/share/doc/mod_put-1.3 The hardware _should_ be solid, although I can never 100% sure rule out disk level corruption. Does this ring any bells to anyone, short of block level corruption? -- v -- v@iki.fi - 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/