EXT2-fs error

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:34:14 +0200

While testing patch-2.3 to see whether I could throw away
my patch-2.1b (but I cannot - it is still the best patch
around if `best' is measured by the ability to apply kernel
patches seen so far), I got the following EXT2 panic:

<2>EXT2-fs error (device 08:02): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #43195: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=1630303087, rec_len=26214, name_len=24435

There seems to be no reason to suspect the hardware.
Filesystem activity: unpacking, patching, diffing, rming lots of
kernel trees.

This was kernel 2.1.42. I went back to 2.0.29, repeated precisely
the same actions - all went well.

I have no time now. May try to investigate a bit more later.

Andries