Not sure this is the best place for this, but it was
suggest on #linuxfs to report the problem here ...
I have an (older) ext3 filesystem where 'some' files
are unable to accept any extended attributes (xattrs).
# setfattr -n user.x -v y some-file
... results in ...
setfattr: some-file: Structure needs cleaning
... and the kernel reports ...
kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md2): ext4_xattr_set_entry:1607: inode #2084096: comm setfattr: corrupted xattr entries
... kernel is not the latest (4.19.84), but e2fsck is ...
e2fsck 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/md2: 6594874/9538640 files (2.7% non-contiguous), 3887814750/3907018432 blocks
Any suggestions how to 'clean my structures' would
be appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Herbert