From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: help about ext3 read-only issue on ext3(2.6.16.30)
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:05:27 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:58:17PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Are you sure the disk is good? I just checked the code in e2fsprogs, it
> seems that it will not complain if rec_len = 0, and the dir iteration
> just aborts.

Um, where are you seeing this?  It should be complaining that the
directory entry is corrupt if rec_len < 12.  I believe I see the
checks there, but I haven't tried creating some test file systems to
be sure.

						- Ted